Comments on: Psystar Declares Gutsiness With New Apple Clone

By: Matt White

Matt White — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:25:57 +0000

I have a Psystar with leopard and would be interested in how your test install goes.

By: Ben Perkins

Ben Perkins — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:03:09 +0000

I have the Open (Q) system from Psystar (2.5GHz Quad Core, 4GB RAM) and have been fairly pleased. When I emailed Psystar about a wireless card (as I didn’t want to pay $99 for theirs) here’s what they sent back:
”
Thank you for choosing Psystar. Cards such as the one listed below are known to work with your computer.
[$52 at time of posting] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833127218
”

I’ve had one or two issues with the computer, for instance once the sound card simply would not be recognized. I sent them an email and within 24 hours they sent me a very, VERY simple patch to run that corrected the problem. They later followed up to make sure everything had worked.

The only problem I have with the Psystar computer I have is the webcam; apparently OS X only checks for webcams at startup, so if I turn my monitor off, the webcam will not be recognized again until I reboot. This is a bit of a pain, I will admit, but it’s not a huge deal.

My $1000 Psystar (I included the price of my HD monitor, keyboard, etc. because you would get that at Apple) would have cost something in the ballpark of $3000 at Apple.

I have purchased a copy of Snow Leopard (family pack) and am willing to test an install on my Psystar after I back it up if anyone is interested in that. It may work since it appears to be the same process as updating 10.5.5 to 10.5.6 which I did on my Psystar with no troubles to speak of.

By: Mike Kozak

Mike Kozak — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:15:35 +0000

Late to the party on this, but was searching something else.

I was one of the first people to get it (my unboxing was on engadget and gizmodo) and it’s fucking awesome. I got a quad core configuration, with 4 gigs of ram…

It DID have built in ethernet…not wireless/bluetooth
I already had a low-profile firewire card and a bluetooth dongle so I was covered…

In regards to the EFI-X comment. They are no where to be found today, while Psystar is easily available. My friend built a hackintosh right before my purchase, using the EFI-X chip. It fried about 3 months back and he’s unable to get any assistance. Screwed.

By: Kale

Kale — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:52:58 +0000

Why buy something like this? Get the EFI-X and you can build the practical equivalent of a $3000 Mac Pro for less than $1200.

You can also run Linux/Windows based systems. And it will be covering Snow Leopard as well.

I have two of the devices, and love them. You can install all software updates, and the system is very stable, even when running professional applications, like Avid and Final Cut Pro.

By: What to Read on GigaOM Network

What to Read on GigaOM Network — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:26:47 +0000

[...] another video search startup emerges. (NewTeeVee) March Madness hits the iPhone. (jkOnTheRun) Here is another Apple Clone. (theAppleBlog) [...]

By: David B

David B — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:50:47 +0000

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By: noah d

noah d — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:47:52 +0000

Hm at least it’s reasonably priced, and doesn’t charge $35434958092365932604236043 to add a gig of RAM.

Apple is overpriced period. Only thing is Psystar should make a $399 Mac (which will be better than the Mini anyways).