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Posted in Apple, Buzz, Desktop Computers by admin on April 20, 2008.
If you haven’t heard, there is quite a bit of buzz about Psystar home-built Open Computers. Essentially, these boxes are PC hardware set up to run an unmodified OS X Leopard kernel. When you see that they start at $399 + $155 for the OS pre-installed, you can imagine that the Mac guys are hopping on these.
So what’s the problem? Well, the OS installation/distribution is against the End User License Agreement (”EULA”) and, therefore, just waiting for a lawsuit by Apple. In that doc, it says the OS cannot be installed by end users on anything other than an “Apple labeled” computer. CNET has an interesting take on this:
If Mac OS X was the only operating system in the entire universe, and Apple required you to use its hardware, lawyers would have a field day.
For that reason, it seems interested users should buy now before everyone’s favorite benevolent monopoly (Apple) shuts the company down.
Paul Murphy with ZDNET goes one step farther and speculates “this particular group is going nowhere because there’s no real value in using even lower quality hardware to compete with Apple’s already low quality hardware”. Honestly, I haven’t yet read of anyone who has actually received their Psystar computer so, at this point, who knows what the true value is going to be other than an interesting legal challenge.
Get one of these Psystar Computers while you can. Not only is their payment processor giving them problems, but the looming EULA challenge by Apple is going to make this a short lived experiment.
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Posted in Desktop Computers, PCs by admin on April 5, 2008.
Think fast, what are two of the most important things in a desktop PC? RAM and drive space. Browsing our desktop systems page, I came across the Acer Aspire M3100-UD5200A Desktop PC for under $519.00. Big deal (you say) but check this out: it comes with 3 GB of RAM and a 1/2 TB hard drive. Incredible how inexpensive chips and storage have become… but I digress. The Acer Aspire M3100 could be an instant, low cost performer in any home office.
The specifications:
Acer AM3100 - MiniTower Desktop. AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor x2 5200+ (2×1MB cache) 3GB (1/1/1) DDRII SDRAM, 500GB SATA 7200 RPM HDD, DVD+/- RW drive, ATI Radeon x1250 graphics solution, 9-in-1 card reader, parallel, RJ-45 Gigabit LAN, VGA, HDMI, FireWire (IEEE 1394), headphones, microphone, six audio, eight USB 2.0 (four front, four back), Windows Vista Home Premium, includes USB keyboard and mouse.
The pros: inexpensive, lots of RAM, drive space and 8 USB ports. The cons: the ATI graphics card is a bit of an underperformer and the price doesn’t include a monitor. Now that would be a deal… but monitors are a cheap add on, or something most nerds like me already have around.
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