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With a rebel Dell, Psystar tries more, more, more


Psystar, that pesky little thorn in Apple's side, has released Rebel EFI. According to Psystar, the app, available for $49.99 through the company's site, "allows for the easy installation of multiple operating systems," including Mac OS X, on a vanilla PC. Besides bypassing EFI requirements, Rebel EFI can also detect for Mac OS X compatible and incompatible hardware, and automatically download appropriate drivers. Skeptical? No worries: the app is free to try (as an ISO download), with a two hour time limit.

To each their own, and if running Mac OS X on non-Apple specified hardware floats your boat, then you should also be aware of the risks involved. In other words, back up your data if you are attempting such a thing. Second, and more importantly, there's the issue of licensing: Apple prohibits the installation of Mac OS X on non Apple-branded machines.

Psystar giveth and Psystar must also taketh. One wonders how Psystar will react when people illegally use Rebel EFI, just like Psystar is allegedly misusing Mac OS X, as pirated versions inevitably circulate around the Interwebs.

Thanks to everyone who sent this in.

[via The Loop]



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November 04 2009 at 4:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
nuclearwinter

Best blog post title. Ever.

October 23 2009 at 12:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bluloo

Doesn't work as advertised, even with an auth code on a PsyStar machine.

Errors out.

I'm sure they'll fix the issues eventually but for now... :-

October 23 2009 at 12:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nick

You imply that Psystar isn't paying Apple for those Mac OS X installations. People pirating Rebel EFI is not the same thing as Psystar installing OS X on these machines. Each machine comes with the retail copy of OS X. Doing that installation is a violation of EULA.

Every time you install a standalone copy of Snow Leopard on a machine running Tiger, or install it on two machines at home, or, technically, if you take the Apple logo off your machine, you are in violation of the EULA.

October 23 2009 at 11:00 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
robert

Best. Headline. Ever.

October 23 2009 at 9:36 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
blazineric

who the hell is going to give this company any personal information.

They might decide its a monopoly and illegal for only one person to be able to use it and just reproduce and sell copies of your own credit card for everyone to us.

no thanks idiots.

October 23 2009 at 8:43 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
tc60045

I'm not openly saying someone should commit a crime, nor encouraging it in any way, but it would strike me as Karmic if the two-hour limit on the Rebel EFI software were cracked and said crack were widely distributed such that Pystar received nothing from their creation.

Again, just saying -- it would be Karma to see.

October 23 2009 at 8:41 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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David Huff

Well, esp. since what they seem to have done is simply repackage the widely avail., and free, bits of software that the Hackintosh community uses to do "plain vanilla" installs of OSX on compatible H/W - I guess I wouldn't feel too sorry for them ;)

Rather like taking credit for other peoples' work...

October 23 2009 at 10:08 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Thomas

I have an iMac but wanted to try this out on my PC (that should have the right hardware). I don't have an opinion if this is right or wrong, but since my iMac needs a new monitor panel for the second time I reckon it would be ok to try - can't live without a Mac for 14 days nor can I afford a spare Mac just now.

But the software is not working on my machine at all.

Made a boot CD and had an original SL DVD ready. Booted my PC, chose boot from CD via the boot menu and the pystar boot screen came up. It had a 4 second count down in the top right corner, but no matter what I did or pressed after the 4 seconds were gone it just booted into my normal Windows install.

No options, no errors, no nothing... Just a stupid boot screen with a timer and then nada..

pffftt...

October 23 2009 at 2:27 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Gilles

My link didn't work, sorry. Here it is:

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October 22 2009 at 11:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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