Mac on PC for sale....wow..."open Computer"...

This box wouldn't be much good to the person looking to do some hardcore work. The standard GPU probably won't allow you to run Final Cut Pro, forcing you to upgrade. And, if you upgrade, you'd might as well go ahead and build your own rig.

The CPU is still a Dual Core and IMO it's probably over-priced considering that Quad Core's in the Core 2 flavor are only about 250.00 now. The memory? It's slow by todays standards. A sub-standard speed that could easily be replaced with 1000 or more for only a few more dollars.

This pre-built box is a good DIY for anyone that doesn't want to DIY, you'd fair better building it yourself, though.
 
Jack Daniel Stanley said:
Scandalous ... the Better Business Bureau has ...


NEVER HEARD OF THEM! :eek:
and ... (fainter readers should not really continue beyond this point, you've been warned)...
THEY USED A ... I can't even bring myself to say it ... A ... A ... A WEBSITE TEMPLATE!!!!:eek::eek::eek::eek:

OMG ... have the feds been notified about this!!!!
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Well, you're leaving out some other (more relevant) pieces of information in that article.


The "company" is brand new. It has no history whatsoever. Doesn't mean anything until you look at all of the info, then it should make people very wary.

The guy's operating from a 3 bedroom house in a residential neighborhood.

Calls to the customer support line get a guy on the phone who says: I'm not a
customer support rep, I'm "just answering the phones."

The company changed the residential address, supposedly relocating to an industrial park. Only problem: the company that's actually located at that address has never heard of them.



I think it's a lot more suspicious than you imply. It could be legit, sure. But at this point it seems unlikely. And if it does turn out to be legit, the company has not done much to seem so. To the contrary.
 
The industrial park address thing is slightly suspicious. But I have had friends in college that ran computer assembly businesses out of their apartment. Just like Letus started out.

Call Tim Oval at Indie Systems and you're likely to get him in his bathrobe watching Love Boat reruns (or not). Doesn't mean he's a shyster (he's far from it just for the record).

The only thing to me that's a check in the negative column is the industrial park address confusion. Everything else is just neutral or not ideal ... as in yeah it would be great if Indi Systems, or Letus, or Cool Lights, or Indi Snap had full time support staffs, but then it would cost more and wouldn't be as personal either. I'm a HUGE supporter of the LE brothers and bought one of their very first adapters, and there were growing pains in terms of quality and service before they became the still small but much more reliable company they are today. But they were always earnest and attempting to do their best, even out of their garage.
 
Jack Daniel Stanley said:
Interesting. Thanks Kholi.
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No Problemo.

It wasn't this easy just about five months or so ago. Not at all. Leopard, however, changed all that and so did 10.4.11. As the software updates it gets easier and easier.

One thing about this company is that they ARE offering a really good alternative to those who aren't so tech savvy. Anyone who knows how to install a hard-drive, however, should think twice about purchasing from them and just doing it on your own.

There's a lot more to benefit from hunting down the best you can get for your money from the start instead of upgrading it later on.

My next project is a LapHackintosh. There are some really good and really CHEAP windows based laptops out there, ones that aren't proprietary like Dell, etc, that you can adjust Bios settings in.

Can't wait to get my hands on one of these suckers.
 
These guys are looking for trouble...

The Mac OS EULA specifically forbids installing it on any hardware that isn't Apple branded:

2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions.
A. Single Use. This License allows you to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-labeled computer at a time. You agree not to install, use or run the Apple Software on any non-Apple-labeled computer, or to enable others to do so.
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Here's the full EULA: http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macosx105.pdf


While this provision is certainly pretty evil, it is still part of the EULA, so you can't just ignore it.

Of course I can build a cheap "Open Computer" running Free Software and GNU/Linux, and have full access to the source code, install everything on as many machines as I want (of any brand), and have no legal ramifications to worry about...
 
You want to know how they do it.....

Check this out.

This is kind of a big deal for the hackintosh community. All previous iterations of their install required all kinds of trouble to install. Leopard finally made it possible to boot from a hacked disk. Previous versions required installing a 3rd part boot loader. Will all versions up till now you still have to spend a lot of time in command line updating kernels manually to get all your "drivers" to jive with your hardware. This meant every upgrade required lots of hacking again

Now, they have patched the EFI to translate between PC-BIOS and the OS so that a non-Hacked version of Leopard can be installed....and in theory be updated without hacking as well.

I find hackers to be incredibly interesting.....even though they are breaking the law. I thought about trying this a while back when Leopard was new, but my lack of Linux command line knowledge and the fact that my 650i chip set is not supported was enough reason to stop looking in to it. And that whole illegal thing.
 
There are extensive how-to guides explaining exactly what components to buy and how o build and boot up the mac OS on it but it was interesting that someone was offereing it completed as a product.

Well, interesting while it lasted.
 
adkimery said:
Kholi,

I think you need an Asus EEE running OS X.


-A
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LoL. That's on my agenda. :B

Nah, seriously, I do want to grab an Asus Laptop because they seem to have the best mix of GPU and CPU horsepower on the market. That's what I want to rock the next OS install on, if it works is another question.

Also, an Asus built laptop should allow for maximum BIOS customization, something you won't get with any Dell or HP laptop. You HAVE to be able to configure BIOS options to do the OS install, and they don't even want you uninstalling Solitaire on HP and Dell (some others as well) computers.
 
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