Macs in a [Radio/TV] Station? Absolutely!

RBR.com & TVBR.com The voice of the Broadcasting Industry ^ | 2009-03-20 | Chris “Doc” Tarr

[motor_racer]

Once you go Mac, you never go back! (Registered Trademark)

[antiRepublicrat]

You think Psystar is the first company Apple has sued over making clones? That started in the early 80s in the case that set the precedent that software in electronic form is still protected by copyright.

[Swordmaker]

Review by Ricky. . . Review by Joel . . . Bob D.

Anonymous reviewers—unwilling to stand behind their reviews of the product by providing their full name—have very little probative value. Sounds like snake oil salesmanship to me. Joel probably works on the Psystar loading dock, Bob D. is likely their janitor, and Ricky is probably short for Ricardo... the second cousin of the owner of Psystar.

[Swordmaker]

The Psystar debacle was the main reason for Steve’s hospitalization which is really from mental breakdown, not pancreatic hormone issues

This borders on libel and slander, Dennis. You better have facts to back up your insane, factless assertions.

One day Macs will be called Psystar clones because they are the true OSX innovators

Oh? When is Psystar going to release ITS new Psystar Operating System (POS X) developed by its staff of crack programers? You are really getting delusional.

[dennisw]

Why don’t you tell me why Steve Jobs took six months off. The official press release was kind of vague. It could be due to the Psystar lawsuit combined with other factors. Jobs is getting sick of the hassle and sick and tired of hassling clone makers. There is very likely disagreement at the highest levels of Apple about what to do with clone makers.

Apple can’t even make a rational decision about whether to get into the eePC 9” laptop game. They are fools not to. The fanboy base is drooling to get their hands on one going for $300-$400

[dennisw]

You think Psystar is the first company Apple has sued over making clones? That started in the early 80s in the case that set the precedent that software in electronic form is still protected by copyright.
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That is ancient history. Democrats are in power and they are always more anti trust oriented. My bet is Psystar wins the case 50% up to 100%. My bet is Psystar will be cloning Macs three years from now. If not in America than offshore and shipping to the USA. The Psystar boys are Spanish and can easily set up shop in Mexico and ship into the United States. And still make a pile of dough (Pesos)

[antiRepublicrat]

Democrats are in power

The Democrats are OWNED by the copyright industry. Obama just put the three biggest enforcer lawyers for the RIAA, MPAA and BSA in top DOJ spots. They've already chimed in on the copyright industry's side in civil cases, so it's a good possibility they'll intervene in Apple v. Psystar on Apple's side.

My bet is Psystar wins the case 50% up to 100%.

You're finally making sense on one aspect of this. It is likely that First Sale overrides Apple's licensing restrictions. In copyright, you can't prevent what you don't have the power under law to prevent.

I'm all for Psystar wanting to make a buck if they and their customers are willing to take the risk of running an OS on a platform neither certified nor supported by the vendor. That's why I was really surprised to find they sell servers. What IT manager in his right mind is going to buy a server with a commercial OS that is not supported by the OS vendor?

But because they're cheaper doesn't make them better. They're still basic boxes with parts thrown in. Give me innovative, quality design and engineering any day.

[dennisw]

Psystar servers do not come with OSX
They come with Linux or Windows flavors

[antiRepublicrat]

Psystar servers do not come with OSX They come with Linux or Windows flavors

In that case, Psystar is just any other PC OEM. You can probably get better servers elsewhere.

Funny, as of last year they had OS X Server as an option. I guess they couldn't get OS X Server working properly on them. Probably because they don't use EFI (just crappy old PC BIOS) and don't have the extra lights-out management chip like the XServe does. Maybe because they don't have all the sensor inputs that OS X Server expects to see in order to monitor the health of the server. With all those deficits, it's probably not a good idea to sell with OS X Server and have a lot of disappointed customers.

[dennisw]

I get it. You saw the OSX server in the past. You are probably correct they could not master the sever side plus maybe didn’t sell too many

[antiRepublicrat]

In the computer industry Macs do have special hardware. First, they use EFI instead of the obsolete BIOS. Much of running OS X on standard machines is hacking it to run on the old BIOS. Users will definitely miss such niceties as being able to graphically select your boot partition with the mouse because EFI can do graphics before the OS even loads. It gets worse with OS X Server since not only does it depend on EFI to do lights-out, it also depends on specific custom hardware in the server. You're not going to get that with off the shelf rack servers or towers using standard motherboards. The better servers from the likes of HP and Dell do it too.

Not even counting that Psystar's servers are inferior hardware, they only way they compete price-wise with an XServe is if you use an unsupported Linux (no support = bad juju in the business world). Going Windows automatically jacks the price beyond that of an XServe. You can end up paying $200 more, and you still only have 10 client licenses with Windows vs. unlimited with OS X Server.