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Hackintosh maker rises from the dead

'When life gives you apples, make applesauce'

By Rik Myslewski in San Francisco

Posted in PC Builder, 3rd July 2009 00:37 GMT

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Psystar, the Florida-based Hackintosher that's been giving Apple fits for over a year, refuses to die.

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (better known amongst fanbois as TUAW [1]), published a copy of the upstart clonemaker's latest newsletter [2], which announces to its customers that not only is the company preparing to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, but is also offering a new tower based on Intel's quad-core, 2.66GHz Xeon W3520 [3] at the bargain-basement price of $1,499.99.

We won't recount all the twists and turns in the on-again, off-again legal battle between Psystar and Apple - after all, we did that just last week [4] when Apple convinced a Florida bankruptcy court to allow Cupertino to continue its copyright-infringement case against the pesky Hackintosher.

But today's news brings to mind the wisdom of ballpark sage Yogi Berra, who famously said: "It ain't over till it's over [5]."

And it most certainly ain't over - at least from Psystar's point of view.

Psystar Open(7)

Psystar's Open(7): $1,499.99 - display not included

The company's newsletter, referring to their May filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection [6], says that Psystar is "now ready to emerge and again battle Goliath."

The Hackintosher's latest weapon in this battle, dubbed the Open(7) [7], is available on the company's website ("In stock") with either 6GB or 12GB of 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM, and either 7,200rpm or 10,000rpm SATA2 drives. Apple's Xeon 3500-series entry-level Mac Pro configuration, by comparison, tops out at 8GB of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM with 7,200 rpm drives, and starts at $2,499.

The Open(7), according to the newsletter, also benefits from "our innovative three-layer sound-deadening side panels and front door" which make the tower the company's "most quiet computing configuration available."

"Quiet," though, is not a word easily used to describe Psystar's attitude in this ongoing battle, as evidenced by the newsletter's closing line. "When life gives you apples," it reads, "make applesauce." ®