Personally I encourage this kind of activity. Im a Mac fanlike the rest of you and if this get more eyes looking at OSX then great. Its also good for the people that cant afford the over priced Mac hardware.

As for the EULA forget it. Its not enforcable.

If the Open Computer works with OSX ill get one instead of that new Mac Pro and spend the savings on my family. Everyones happy.

Do any of you know anyone that has bought one of these yet? I don’t run around acting pompous until I see proof of actual rip-offs. Wait until someone buys one of these things, and makes a negative review somewhere before you start cutting them up.

Yeah, they aren’t a huge computer company like Dell or Apple… and yeah, they don’t have Apple’s blessing… but Apple started in a friggin garage and look where they got. They didn’t have the best of marketing in the beginning either… they only had a innovative idea (not even a product in the way beginning).

I’m just saying whats wrong with the idea of a computer being able to run three operating systems? I personally run a Mac, Ubuntu dual-core server and have built a Hackintosh for development purposes. I’m open to the chance of having something I can put anything on… and I think it would be great for introducing even more of my friends to Apple products.

Just as long as the thing is legit of course. We will see.

http://myoldmac.net/FAQ/Apple1-priced666.66-Why-WozAnswers.htm

If so, then Psystar is making reference to having some big ambitions. Too bad it’s not backed up with big skills.

What I got on the other end was an answering machine with an outgoing message clearly created to imitate the phone company’s “your call could not be completed” message…but it was *obviously* not the actual phone company’s real message…

The local phone company always has a voice on their message which sounds female, and there is always a series of tones before & after the voice speaks. The voice on the other end of the PsyStar number was male, and the tones were not present.

Just another piece of evidence that PsyStar are Pshysters! Caveat emptor…

I don’t think the mysterious second cable is the phone cord (I agree with you questioning why it wasn’t there in the first shot even though the phone was).

I also don’t think this second cable is the keyboard cable either. First off, the keyboard is on the table at the beginning of the video…however no mysterious cable (just like with the phone). Then in the next shot, the mysterious cable shows up, with the keyboard still on the table. I’ll admit, maybe the mysterious cable was lying flat on the table in the first shot. However, notice the mysterious cable’s distinct upright bend in it. Later in the video, when the keyboard is removed from the table, the mysterious cable still has that distinct bend. Wouldn’t it seem like when moving a wired keyboard off the table, the cable would move and change shape?

I think that mysterious cable is attached to something else besides a phone or a keyboard. That “blue box” beneath the table, which coincidentally showed up at the same time the mysterious cable showed up, sort of looks like a computer screen. Maybe it’s not, but why it’s showing up all of the sudden is interesting.

If we are to believe these guys, they should take a basic lesson in creating documentary video as I think most of us aren’t convinced yet.

What do you think?

Craig

Leaving aside whether or not Psystar engaged in some sort of flim-flammery here with the video - what is so ’suspicious’ about having several 6’s in their phone number???? - , they sure could have shot it in a more convincing manner. Were it me, I would have shot it in one continuous shot. Start with showing the box, open up the box and show the innards, show the monitor cable running from the box to the monitor, then show the start-up and run some typical Mac apps on it. That way nobody could claim you edited it.

If this video were too long, you could edit it to something more manageable (under 5:00) which people are more likely to watch, then provide a link to the full-length video for those who want to see the whole thing with their own eyes.

The real proof of whether Psystar is for real offering this computer - has anybody ordered one, received it, and successfully run Leopard and Mac apps on it??? I haven’t heard of that yet.

That said, I see your points and will even offer you a more plausible explanation. Your comment made me look at this shot closer and my guess now is that it is the keyboard cable. The person demoing the game has to be off to the side so they can shoot the screen, so it makes the most logical sense.

As I said at the beginning of the article, I am not refuting their claims. I just wanted to illustrate that making a video doesn’t necessarily prove anything. They need to get one of these to an independent party, like a member of the media, and allow them to review the system. So far, from what i have read, they seem to not be willing to do that. Until that happens I will tend to look at there claims with a lot of skepticism.

That being said, I would not personally buy a Cuban Sandwich from these guys.

Okay, Mac OS X PC is not the same one as the Ubuntu one. The Monitor is different, different badge for a start.

I’m not sure what planet you are from, but on my world Phones require wires to be connected to supply the phone line and power… the mysterious wire is the phone line.

No offence, but this is 3 different PC’s and you are trying to make out it is something it’s not

As long as Psystar doesn’t have formal approval from Apple, like the Axiontron ModBook, it remains a shady operation.