EFi-X USA among latest to sell OS X capable machines

I don't get all this "run OS X on a PC box of random parts" desire. Why would you want to do that? I mean, yeah, you might save $200 at first, but then when you need to do an Update, your hardware might just flake out, and then you have to spend the cash on hardware that doesn't freak out with each new Update.

On top of that, with the "random box of crap" method, you don't get AppleCare, nor do you get 100% compatibility for third-party software unless you use all the same hardware as a Mac... And if you price out the exact same hardware + software you'll probably end up close to the Mac price anyway.

Finally, half the reason to buy a Mac is the slick hardware. Slot-loading Superdrive on a laptop? Only on a Mac. All the PC laptops use trays. Cool chiclit keyboard? Only a Mac. Command/Apple key? Only on a Mac. Excellent design, cool gesture-capable trackpad, MagSafe adapter, easy upgrade of hard drive and RAM, well-designed port layout, General Mac durability and quality... All those things are part of the price.

Macs aren't just a random box of crap parts from Taiwan. Yes, they're built with a lot of the same hardware, but they're built in a certain way, with a certain engineering standard, and SPECIFIC parts that make them a uniform standard so that OS X doesn't have to support a bajillion different manufacturers. Where Dell just makes the lowest-cost parts fit into a case and sorts out any issues in software, Apple makes the parts work together well in the first place and then gives you a top-notch OS to bring it all together.

I wouldn't trade my MacBook for any Dell, Acer, or HP laptop. No way. They SQUEAK when you hold them! My MacBook is a solid, amazing piece of tech, and I got exactly what I paid for when I paid the "Apple tax" of around $100 over the price of a PC with comparable specs.

It's a waste to run OS X on a hunk of Dell junk.

With the kit and dongle coming up to $2100 why not just suck it up and buy an Apple?

http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/12/efi-x-shuts-down-efi-x-usa-says-it-doesnt-support-mac-clones/

why bother posting an update without revising the text to remove the impied association between EFi-X and Efi-X USA. there really is a lot of sloppy editing on this site anymore with the lazy article revisions and inaccurate and misleading headlines.

But can't companies just sell computers which are OSX-Capable but don't have any OS pre-installed and just give the costumers a DVD for auto-installing or a DVD that comes which very detailed instructions for installing this on the computer?

That might be more of a problem for Apple to sue on, won't it?

Seems everybody is hopping on this bandwagon. Microsoft might as well too...

What does EFi-X do exactly....? I guess it just installs the OS X patched distros and installs appropriate kexts...

Or does it do anything else...?