First Customer Receives their Open Computer
A Gizmodo Reader has reported that they have received their Open Computer from Psystar and they included a video clearly showing the boot of the machine. My conclusion? Money wasted. Psystar is making money off of the OSx86 project, and this is something you could do yourself in a day.
The boot sequence shows a few ugly black screens, typical of a Windows PC boot, followed by the Mac white startup screen. There are absolutely no benefits to buying an Open Computer right now. Eventually after they have proven themselves, it might be a good opportunity for non-computer savvy people to get their hands on a pseudo-Mac, but to me that seems to be quite a small niche.
This would be a phenomenal product if it were genuinely a Mac, but as it stands, this is simply a neatly packaged Hackintosh. It CANNOT be updated, an enormous caveat, it isn’t a Mac through and through, as evidenced by the ugly boot screens, and overall is something that can be accomplished with a cheap PC and a day on the OSx86 project (not that we endorse that...)
One last thing to note: Purchasing it with Leopard is a waste of $129. They will send you a shrink-wrapped retail version of Leopard, probably just purchased from their local Apple Store. It cannot be used to reinstall Leopard onto your Open Computer, begging the question, why sell it?
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“The boot sequence shows a few ugly black screens, typical of a Windows PC boot...”
Er, when’s the last time you saw a Windows boot, guy?
on April 30, 2008 at 07:32 AM - LINKjust yesterday. An ugly dell screen, then 2 screens of white text, then the windows logo.
on April 30, 2008 at 07:46 AM - LINKIt’s strange that Windows XP on my Mac doesn’t go through any of those ugly screens - it just goes straight to the Windows logo (which lags a bit).
on May 1, 2008 at 08:04 AM - LINKit may be a firmware thing…
on May 1, 2008 at 11:21 AM - LINKCan’t help notice that the Pystar website says that if you buy Leopard with the Open Computer then they will install it for you. That suggest a it will work and that you can actually upgrade it.
on May 2, 2008 at 06:18 AM - LINKThey will install Leopard, and it works, but it cannot he updated or reinstalled from the disk they provide.
on May 2, 2008 at 06:45 AM - LINK