EFiX Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Psystar's Mac clones all sold out

by Aron Trimble (Dec 2nd, 2009)

It didn't take long, but it seems that sometime in the night, following their agreement with Apple, Psystar has mysteriously run out of stock on all of their Mac clones. Apparently their settlement with Apple on the order of $2,000,000USD has caused them to accept defeat. Given that they only sold ...

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

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Dec 12th, 2008)

Update: The EFi-X development team contacted Engadget to report that they have nothing to do with "EFi-X USA" and they do not approve of this effort to sell Mac OS X-compatible machines. Classy! Update #2 (6 p.m. ET): EFi-X has let Engadget know that it is shutting down EFi-X USA's plans to sell ...

Pictures of OS X 'mod-chip' EFi-X in the wild

by Christina Warren (Sep 12th, 2008)

In June, Mat wrote about the EFi-X, the internal USB-dongle that claims to allow a user to install OS X from a retail disc onto a non-Apple PC. Essentially the EFi-X is a mod-chip for certain Intel motherboards that will trick the Apple Retail discs into thinking that the hardware is ...

EFiX USB dongle for installing OS X on a regular PC

by Mat Lu (Jun 14th, 2008)

A while back the Mac web was abuzz about Psystar, the first commercially available hackintosh. Now comes EFiX, an USB dongle that will supposedly allow you "to install Mac OS X straight from the original DVD [onto a regular PC] without having to worry about patches, replacing files and anything ...