Psystar Video Surfaces

Gizmodo have a post up featuring a video showcasing the bootup procedure of the Psystar Mac Clone (For a lot less than the cost of a Mac, Psystar will sell you a better spec PC running a modified version of OSX). This is definitely running one of the OSX86 distributions, but I’m not sure which. The “About this Computer..” window doesn’t show the iATKOS logo but then that could easily have been removed.

Interestingly Gizmodo say the Apple Software updater doesn’t appear to work, which in my experience is not the case with either iATKOS or Kalyway. Both of these can download updates just fine (though be careful about installing updates if your machine can’t run the vanilla kernel).

I wonder if this is intentional to stop a user accidentally breaking their install by installing Apple updates, or it’s just a badly performed install. I suspect the latter.

On a different note I really really dislike how as of late certain companies and individuals are taking the hard work by communities and packaging them as a commercial product for their own gain. Before Psystar  in the Apple Ecosystem there was IPhone Sim Free, and only today I noticed some schmuck at ATV4Windows charging for prebuilt PatchSticks that allow you to run custom applications on Apple TV. ($50 for a $5 USB stick, five minutes work, and access to a website with information ripped from free forums? Umm no thanks).

If you really do want to unlock your iPhone, or install OSX86, or patch your AppleTV, then I recommend you make the effort to learn how yourself. I promise you it’s really not that hard, and if a future update wipes out your work you’ll know how either to fix it, or find out how. Paying for these things will sooner or later lead to an expensive paperweight.

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