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So the company promising Mac clones for $299 turns out to be a hoax? This sounds so vaguely familiar; company address is a house, company and product info that doen’t add up and CEOs that are on the board of a boatload of companies. I just can’t put my finger on it but it sounds so familiar.

Not only does the Miami Chamber of Commerce and BBB not know anything about any company named Psystar (confirmed by reader Travis through his contacts in the chamber), the actual physical address they listed on their website actually changed halfway through the day yesterday. What's going on here? Did they all of a sudden move from a home business into a new office space? Nope. Here's the deal.
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Just wait, someone will try to do this for real.

"OS X Compatible! for only $499!"
 
wiseoracle said:
Well actually they do exist.

http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9920436-37.html

They just started, so that is why it's coming off as a ruff start.
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What does that prove other than the author of that story is mentally retarded for just giving his credit card info to a sham company?

I don't care if they opened this morning, Why would they keep changing their address? Stuff like address and look/functionality of the site are 2 things you have done BEFORE you go live. Not a week later.
 
This has been tried before.. Apple II, early MAC's, G3 days, and now. Either a scam, or serious lawsuit and done.

This guy is likely not even hiding its a scam, and just wants a few credit cards.
 
Well, the Chamber of Commerce and BBB not knowing about isn't all that suspicious, especially for a company that hasn't shipped a product yet.

I run an on-site computer repair company, started in 2001, with over half a million dollars in revenue; and as far as I know, the Chamber of Commerce still doesn't know I exist, and the only reason the BBB knows I exist is that they made a marketing pitch to get me to join. (I said no, the BBB is a corrupt organization whose sole purpose is to protect their members, not to actually help consumers; so I don't support them as a consumer, and won't support them as a business, either.)

Yeah, the other parts look suspicious, especially for a company that HAS to have a local assembly facility (getting computers made in China is one thing, pre-loading OS X is another.)
 
I think people are crazy for ordering one of these before review sites get some to review, even if they are legit they might not ship anyways because of a block from Apple (even though patent lawyers have claimed Apple cant really do anything serious anyways since no laws are being broken, just petty contract issues which is virtually nothing in the legal world).
 
Apple probably set it all up themselves as an excuse to crack down on hackintosh users.
 
DeFex said:
Apple probably set it all up themselves as an excuse to crack down on hackintosh users.
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uh... ok... wouldent it be easier/cheaper/quicker to just decide to slam down the banhammer if they really wanted to? i mean seriously, im up for a good conspiracy theory but thats a bit of a stretch lol
 
^^ I agree with FLECOM. Thats like saying it was Mother Teresa behind the wall in the Grassy Nole.
 
ahh maybe lawsuits will stop it from becoming commercial, but not tech guy [that just does not care about Apple's EULA ] actually buys a real MAC anymore if they want one unless they have too much money. Hackintosh all the way - check on the osx86 websites to see what hardware works and your good.

I personally do not like mac, but if I did, no way in hell that I am buying their overpriced junk!
 
by the way, the hardware they are selling will work with osx 10.5.2 according to the osx86 hardware wiki (just not sure about the onboard sound card) - might be a joke, but a well thought out one.
 
Its so easy to do anyway with a bit of knowledge, I knocked one up for under £150 that can run Kalyway 10.5.2 on a Gigabyte 945 based mobo with a 1.6 Pentium dual core
 
Looking back at gizmodo.com it would appear that Psystar's current address is a warehouse that was up for sale for $6 million.

That is pretty good to go from working out of your garage to being in a $6 million building in a day.

I bet you buy this time next week they will move out of florida and be located at

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
 
mac clone? wtf...its a damn pc. and how would it be any different than installing OSX illegally on any other pc?
 
wiseoracle said:
Guys sorry to say, but Gizmondo's information is INCORRECT! As in it's false.

Read Tomshardware article. They actually talked to him.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/psystar-openmac-apple,5205.html
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I read that article when it was posted above, the question is did you? I didn't see where they really proved or disproved anything. The owner stated that they were in the process of moving their offices when they changed their address. What about the other 3 address that were posted? Lets assume for a moment that they were infact moving out of a house to a building. Was it really THAT important to modify their site with the address they were at, at that EXACT momement in time causing them to put down the wrong address over and over again because they were not aware of their actual new address? If they were running it out of their house any mail sent to the old address would have made it to them still. Even if they were moving out of one building to another they still could have gotten their mail. Its not like you change stuff on your site this moment and all new snail mail coming to you auto switches where it is going to. Thus there was no reason for the address changing over and over again.

If you want to believe that they are real just because the owner said so then go right ahead. Remember the HardOCP vs Infinium Labs? Why don't you go buy one of those Phantoms after all they aren't vaporware either. Ohwait... my bad yes there were.


Plystar might be off to a bumpy start, but I have yet to see one thing that makes me think they are legit and are not just scamming people.
 
Exavior said:
I read that article when it was posted above, the question is did you? I didn't see where they really proved or disproved anything. The owner stated that they were in the process of moving their offices when they changed their address. What about the other 3 address that were posted? Lets assume for a moment that they were infact moving out of a house to a building. Was it really THAT important to modify their site with the address they were at, at that EXACT momement in time causing them to put down the wrong address over and over again because they were not aware of their actual new address? If they were running it out of their house any mail sent to the old address would have made it to them still. Even if they were moving out of one building to another they still could have gotten their mail. Its not like you change stuff on your site this moment and all new snail mail coming to you auto switches where it is going to. Thus there was no reason for the address changing over and over again.

If you want to believe that they are real just because the owner said so then go right ahead. Remember the HardOCP vs Infinium Labs? Why don't you go buy one of those Phantoms after all they aren't vaporware either. Ohwait... my bad yes there were.


Plystar might be off to a bumpy start, but I have yet to see one thing that makes me think they are legit and are not just scamming people.
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its not like it matters if they are trying to scam people or not, what they are doing is illegal... period... there has been several of people in the osx86 community who have tried things like this... there is no if/ands or buts about it, apple doesn't want us loading up osx on non-apple hardware... end of discussion

those people on engadget who are like "if this gets steve's blessing, i'll buy one".... WHY IN THE HELL WOULD STEVE BLESS THIS?

he wouldn't.... apple isn't the same apple it used to be, don't expect there ever to be apple supported clones ever again... they played that game and quit it a long time ago
 
The point is, everyone is jumping to conclusions.

Yes I don't agree IF they potentially scam customers, or don't show any actual hardware to prove it.

But we don't know. Why are you speculating things so early in the game?
 
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