Psystar taunts Apple with Xserve clone

Aggressively staking its claim as the lone company outside of Apple selling Mac OS X systems, Psystar on Thursday has unveiled a pair of Xserve-like rackmount computers unofficially based on Apple's Mac OS X Leopard Server.

The one-unit-tall OpenServ 1100 and the two-unit OpenServ 2400 both run the server OS in either its 10-client or unlimited versions but promise 2.5GHz Xeon processors and storage options that aren't available in any of Apple's systems — including the very nature of the taller 2400, which also has six hard drive bays and a floppy drive.

Unlike Apple's servers, users can also specify a standard copy of Mac OS X Leopard rather than the server-class software, bringing the price of the base OpenServ to $1,724 with the software selection.

The release further cements Psystar's unusual position in the computer market as the only company to go unchallenged in selling unofficial Mac clones. Although the company is using third-party hacks to emulate Mac firmware and is otherwise known to be violating Mac OS X terms of service, Apple hasn't yet challenged the clone maker with warnings or legal action since it began selling a $400 Mac OS X tower in April.

For its part, Psystar has been on the offensive in staking out its rights to sell its clones, arguing that Apple would violate antitrust laws by attempting to ban third-party hardware and that Psystar itself wasn't violating any rules.

PsyStar OpenServ 1100

PsyStar OpenServ 2400

97 Comments

jimdkc 17 comments · 16 Years

About 16 years ago

Floppy drive? What for???

wheelhot 452 comments · 17 Years

Boo! Psycrap is the biggest crappiest company in the history. They kept saying Apple will violate antitrust laws but take note that they are violating the hackers code by offering the hackers code in their machine without loyalty fees. They dont even ask permission from these hackers.

What I hope is Psycrap get huge sums of money and got sued and lost most of their money for breaking the freeware license agreement.

The OSX86 community developers is against this. Boo!

ltcommander.data 327 comments · 16 Years

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the whole point of server hardware reliability and stability? Who exactly isn't going to buy a server with hacked firmware and drivers?

solipsism 25701 comments · 18 Years

This article reminds me of a Darwin Award's 1995 honorable mention:

"Bowling Green, Ohio student Robert Ricketts, 19, had his head bloodied when he was struck by a Conrail train. He told police he was trying to see how close to the moving train he could place his head without getting hit."
? http://DarwinAwards.com/stupid/stupid1998-08.html

MacPro 19838 comments · 18 Years

How come now mention of EFiX Dongle on this blog? It is everywhere else.