Engadget goes hands-on with a Psystar

What amazes me is why anyone would pay that much for a machine they could easily build themselves for $250 or pay their local PC monkey $350 for. They didn't even bother to search the OSX86 community to find the most compatible components. I don't see any promise on their website to make update installers or drivers available either.

Anyone who thinks this is the fabled xMac is sadly mistaken, if you want to make use of those slots you'd better be prepared to get your hands dirty digging around for driver kexts and installing things from the command prompt.

I've used OSX86 and it can be made to run well with some fiddling, but there are always little annoying issues, usually with networking, video or sound. Of course any system or security updates end up requiring a re-install plus reapplying any kext fiddling you had to do for your motherboard/chipset. Most application updates will work fine, but there's always the chance that a quicktime update will rub something the wrong way and bork your system.

I support the work that the OSX86 community has done because they're not out to make money from it, it's a purely hacker thing, making something work in a way it wasn't intended. Psystar is just a fly-by-night that's trying to make money off both OSX86 and Apples work without contributing anything themselves.

Unfortunately this could result in Apple implementing some kind of horrid registration/verification scheme that would hurt everyone.

Legality and quality of the product aside, I don't know why anyone would consider buying from this company. Everything they've done so far has been half-assed at best.

fans are on full ALL -THE-TIME, dhcp needs resetting every 15mins in system prefs, and an update will probably knock this thing out, needless to say the assembler has pissed off both apple and the osx86 community and violated osx agreement and the efi emulation agreement, youd be mad to buy this, most people will be doing it because the processes on osx86 are to complex for them, yet as soon as there is a problem, all they'll be able to do is install windows or linux without the know-how, its one big stupid idea and its a shame that its the impression some people will get of osx

JohnPQ: The Psystar machine will set you back $550 with Leopard. You can get a brand new Mac Mini with Leopard and iLife, not to mention no EULA violations and no half-assed mickey mouse hack jobs to get the OS to run on the hardware, for $600.

So what was that again about "only a few can afford"?

Will it blend?

There's no firewire on that thing!

Its a shame that you guys are giving coverage to clearly a violator of IP. The more press and reviews they get, the more legit it appears their products are. When in reality they are violating Apple's and other's IP.

I can't wait for Apple to unleash the dogs on them for stealing their IP.

I want you guys to do some basic tests as if you were going to test a REAL mac....

Where is the evidence there was any attention paid by Apple legal? Surely if there was anything Apple could do or wanted to do it would have happened by now? And by the way, this is where the expression "put it through the (w)ringer" comes from,

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:fMi5ztalYPxyXM:http://www.albernionline.com/hos/copperwasher.jpg

but you are probably too young to have any idea what it really means, so your incorrect spelling can be forgiven.

Great app:)