Apple and mac-clone maker Psystar, are deeply entangled in a legal battle over licensing Apple’s proprietary operating system, OS X. While Apple has sued the company asking it to stop selling computers with OS X installed, Psystar continues to push the hardware, even negatively portraying Steve Jobs and Apple in Psystar’s press releases.
A press release that Psystar sent out today titled “Psystar Releases Blu-Ray, Nvidia 9800GT Before Apple,” directly mentions Apple’s decision to negate Blu-Ray from their current computer line. “Psystar is shipping Blue-ray® and 9800GT equipped computers before Apple’s release of these peripheral products on their own computers,” the release mentions.
Psystar is shipping Blue-ray® and 9800GT equipped computers before Apple’s release of these peripheral products on their own computers. Apple, developer of the OS X operating system, has chosen to delay support for Blu-ray® with Apple CEO Steve Jobs citing it as “a bag of hurt” during the recent release of the new Apple notebooks. Psystar president Rudy Pedraza countered:
“Blu-ray has already won the format war. Not only is there fully functional and mature support for Blu-ray in other operating systems but you can now rent Blu-ray discs from almost any rental chain. Blu-ray has become pervasive technology that is being widely adopted by consumers everywhere,” says Pedraza.
Pedraza also pointed out that “Blu-ray is not just for movies. The ability to burn 25-gigabyte discs is a feature that can help users in media editing or enterprise environments keep archives of large file sets. Our systems, regardless of configured operating system, can now provide this functionality.”
Psystar continues to explain that NVIDIA’s GeForce 9800GT graphics card is ideal for high-end gaming. “The GeForce 9-series has become ubiquitous in today’s PC hardware market although Apple currently does not currently offer the 9800GT on any computer,” they explain.
A quick jaunt through Psystar’s online store shows the possible configurations you can purchase. Specifically, the addition of a 6x Bluray Burner will run you around $350 extra. While some of the configurations and add-ons Psystar offers may seem tempting, it’s important to remember that these machines have not been built with proper cooling methods. Although they’ll sell you three 300GB 10,000RPM SATA drives for your machine, they won’t tell you how loud they are, how hot they’ll get, and that you shouldn’t run three hard drives this fast side-by-side without advanced air-flow and cooling techniques.
If you were expecting to see big public fireworks, and an intense legal battle drawn out over Psystar’s demise, you’re out of luck. Apple and Psystar are currently attempting to resolve their on-going dispute over through an Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), and are both set to appear before a judge on November 6th. Psystar continues to sell its Open-Computer amidst the legal drama, so only time will tell how this saga unfolds.
MacBlogz has approached an Intellectual Properties Attorney about the case who explains that, based on Apple’s licensing contract, Psystar is entirely in the wrong. Even so, the mac-cloner continues to sell its products directly against Apple’s legal demands. Psystar is pushing advertisements through Google Ads, and negatively which is surely to aggravate if not infuriate Apple’s legal team.
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3 Comments to “Psystar Shipping Blu-Ray Equipped Open-Computer, Before Apple”
What a joke. Psystar needs to disappear. I’ll be those 10,000 RPM hard drives would either make your plastic computer melt, or they’d be so loud you can’t talk to anybody near you. What a CROCK !
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I don’t know about this lawsuit. Part of me is kind of worried for Apple, like… Why did they choose to make it non-public? Wouldn’t they want to set an example for all the other would-be cloners?
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Apple’s not really a public company when it comes to their legal dealings and inner-office politics. By agreeing to enter into an ADR, the rest of the case, and a majority of the outcome will most likely remain private.
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