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posted by takyon on Wednesday August 31 2016, @11:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the pystar-redux? dept.

El Reg reports:

An outfit called "Hacbook" is channeling Psystar, offering Mac OS laptops for US$329.

The laptops are actually refurbished HP EliteBooks, with a 14-inch, 1600x900 display, Sandy Bridge i5 CPU, 802.11 a/b/g/n, up to 1TB of disk, and 8GB of RAM. That's a spec Apple could have sold you in about 2013.

[...] The machines ship with no operating system but do include an installer its makers say "shouldn't take you more than 15 minutes to set up."

Jack Kim, one of the people behind the project, suggests you buy an OS X licence from Apple.

[...] "We're merely selling kits that users can then do whatever they want with afterwards."

"It's optimized to run OS X, but you can install Linux or Windows on it and use it however you want--that's completely up to the user. If Apple contacts us with concerns we'll work together to solve them."

[...] It's not the first time someone's run up a version of OS X on much cheaper hardware. Those with long memories will recall Psystar, which fell victim to Cupertino's lawyers in 2009.

I wondered if these things come with Secure Boot--which I prefer to call Crippled Boot (orig)
or Security Theater Boot (orig). One source said that HP's 8460p did not. (orig)


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 01 2016, @12:03AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 01 2016, @12:03AM (#395939)

    Can Apple just get a decent mid-tower with PCIe slots for a reasonable price? It's not like people have been asking them for years or have been forced to switch to fucking Windows to meet the requirements of their software. [dcinema.me]

    "Darth Vaders Butt Plug" [apple.com] need not apply!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 01 2016, @01:32AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 01 2016, @01:32AM (#395979)

    No, they can't. Selling "decent mid-tower with PCIe slots for a reasonable price" is a low-margin business. And because of how Apple's marketing works, it will cannibalize their high-margin business -- people will make price comparisons between two Apple products that they currently won't make between an Apple product and another brand, because the Apple brand is the difference that made those comparisons "apples to oranges" -- when it's all Apples, you can bet a lot of them will suddenly go for the reasonable price.

  • (Score: 2) by SpockLogic on Thursday September 01 2016, @01:33AM

    by SpockLogic (2762) on Thursday September 01 2016, @01:33AM (#395980)

    Can Apple just get a decent mid-tower with PCIe slots for a reasonable price?

    That's what I wanted so 6 years ago I built a quad core 2.8 GHz i7 as a back-up/media server/FAH folder. It's been running 24/7 ever since running 10.6.8, rock solid. I think it cost about $750.

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    • (Score: 2) by Kilo110 on Thursday September 01 2016, @03:10AM

      by Kilo110 (2853) Subscriber Badge on Thursday September 01 2016, @03:10AM (#396007)

      Why a hackintosh for a server instead of Linux or bsd?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 01 2016, @05:45AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 01 2016, @05:45AM (#396045)

        OSX is BSD.

        Why not Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux!

        Only Linux is Linux and you should use Linux because Linux!

        Linux!

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 01 2016, @06:45AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 01 2016, @06:45AM (#396060)

          Did you ever notice that no one pirates Mac OS's? Did you not wonder why? More puzzling, however, is why anyone would ever pirate MS operating systems. Because it might be, as Adm. Akbhar says, a trap.

        • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday September 01 2016, @02:34PM

          by tangomargarine (667) on Thursday September 01 2016, @02:34PM (#396178)

          Well, for one thing, actual BSD or Linux wouldn't be illegal to install...

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    • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Thursday September 01 2016, @12:32PM

      by TheRaven (270) on Thursday September 01 2016, @12:32PM (#396144) Journal
      10.6.8 hasn't had security updates for ages and has known, remotely exploitable, vulnerabilities. I hope that machine isn't connected to a network...
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