| RT @BarbaraKrasnoff: Can Psystar's new Rebel EFI software make a Hackintosh out of your PC? Well--yes and no. http://bit.ly/1OkU1H 30 days ago |
Psystar's $50 hackintosh tool not all it's cracked up to be
Infinite Loop —
... , promises to help install Mac OS X Snow Leopard on any generic Intel-based PC. As Computerworld recently discovered , it tends to work OK as long as your hardware is close enough to what Apple ships and drivers are available. However, the $50 you spend essentially pays for software that's freely available online and doesn't guarantee a better working system. Rebel EFI works much like Boot-132 or PC EFI: once burned to a CD-ROM, you can boot a PC from it and it will allow you to install Mac OS X directly from a regular install DVD. Though Rebel EFI allows you to "install any ...
Psystar begs judge to rule it's legit
Macworld —
... that could have been made absent Apple’s attempts to restrict Mac OS X Snow Leopard to Macintoshes.” Psystar asked Hoeveler to slap an injunction on Apple that would prevent the California computer maker from “representing that Psystar’s making and selling such computers is other than perfectly legal.” Elsewhere in the amended complaint, Psystar mentioned the moves it has recently made to license its cloning-capable technology to other computer makers, and to sell a utility, dubbed Rebel EFI , that lets owners of generic PCs install and run Apple’s Snow Leopard. ...
