Psystar: What's the French Word for Lawsuit?

@kevin,

One word was missing from my post for clarification (headless)... no exxageration needed.. Desktop in my head is a headless box, i.e. Mac mini & Mac Pro.. that's the price I was quoting for. I'm not interested in an all-in-one "Desktop"..

Thanks for playing...

I've studied the Franch language since I was three, and the word you are looking fore eez: LeFukt.

Santé, Mes Amis!

The world's tiniest violin is playing for Apple right now.

I like their software and their hardware but I could care less about what they think I should do with that hardware or software after I buy it.

The main problem really is... Once Apple start allowing other companies to use their OS, Apple loose control... The reason things work so well with Apple is they have tight control over everything...

When you start making YumCha machines (a little bit of everything) you start relying on 3rd party vendors to make sure their drivers are compatible... and this JUST DOESN'T HAPPEN.

Can you imagine getting calls saying that Processor XYZ isn't working with Motherboard ABC and Graphic Card DEF? At the moment, Apple knows that their machines work, if a software reinstall doesn't fix it, then the machine must be faulty!

I am glad Apple remains closed... it means things just work! And if it means I pay a premium, then so be it!

Funny how someone comes out with an affordable piece of hardware that will run Mac OSX and you report on all the dirt. Good job as usual Erica. Apple doesn't want to compete in the budget Mac Market so you think they will trample the competition with lawsuits. Sounds fair.

It all comes down to drinkin' koolaid®.

Don't you love that Apple OS goodness enough to want everyone to share it? Or are you a hardcore Koolaid® drinker that would rather not dirty your Koolaid® drinkin' glass with the hands of the less fortunate who can't afford a $3k Mac Pro or even a $1200 iMac?

Since we're on the subject of the French I guess we can write this post up as Erica's "Let them eat cake (and use Windows)" post.

alright, hysterical banter about xenophobia aside... let's let the author's silly use of idioms slide. there are better points in the article to discuss.

first off, am i alone in being generally unmoved by ELUAs? like... it's not a magic spell. it's not even a law (sorry, kids, it's not). it's certainly not a commandment. ultimately, fine... don't steal. i accept that. we all get that. fair enough. but don't load it on other machines? yeah, great. that's as abstracted as don't use the OS in a strawberry patch. ultimately, it's whatever and then some. like, the first thing my friend said when he saw the psystar move was to say "yup. illegal." really? is it? so what. aren't there better implications to talk about... even if psystar is scratching at those implications with a feint.

also, i'm not 100% sure that psystar is selling the OS preinstalled, per se. they've kind of found some tricky wording on their page. they seem to be wording it as if they're selling the OS as separate product that they'd deliver to you anyways - interestingly keeping the markup on the OS so they're not undercutting apple which keeps them legit. and if you buy that separate product they'll install it for you. so it's an optional purchase that they'll install for you as a courtesy. it's not a free assumed running OS that automatically comes with the machine, it's a courtesy service of a friend - a thank you, if you will. i think those might be two different senses of what preinstall is. i'm not really sure though, and would love to hear more especially from attys - not apple attys.

this whole sale of a non-apple OS machine might indeed be useless. i don't know if a hackintosh can practically go anywhere at this point. what interests me though is what it might do to the marketplace if it ever is viable. beyond the obvious shock and awe that psystar is going for, there is a nifty question. if, and this is a big if, a successfully update-able OSX were running on non-apple party machines, what would they really be able to do to stop it? especially if people sell the machines with no installing at all, just billed as "open"... i have a feeling it would only be good for apple to have to deal with that reality. sure, publicly they'd have to go against it. but i think it's the people who play frankenstein with various technologies who are more likely to find the awesome tricks and giggles some day, and who make development as a whole progress.

you side with apple on this. Which only really violates the EULA... but the majority of your recent entertaining news in based on the iPhone dev scene. Which completely violates the EULA. tisk tisk.

Pystar is no French word at all... You just can't mix up things like that...
Plenty of light-headed ppl are gonna think that the Psystar case is related in some way to french people... And besides having a crappy government, there's nothing in common (not sure this has neither but well)

(PS: looks like mypcproblems.info has ripped your article off btw, and that Psyisses me off :-) )

Although I agree with the general feeling, I am shocked by that "French". This is close to xenophobia and I don't understand why you Erica, copy that on TUAW.
And speaking of hidden meanings, Apple could easily be described as the american-english word for greate products but also "pointless cats and dogs game with unlockers", "lame restrictions on AppStore's contents", "ridiculous EULAs that tie OS and hardware" and of course crazy prices. And I'm not forgetting about "stooopid lawsuit against the Big Apple logo". See, nothing french here...

Im not all about the hackintosh, but I can't get with the Mac pricing:

$2499 for a Desktop (or $599, really not a choice) ) (kinda high, so I'll keep waiting for features that match that price (what those are , i don't know)

$2499 for a laptop w/a 17in monitor.. this I can't understand ever..

And I'm not here to "compare" prices with a PC, cause nothing compares to a Mac period..