Well, "idiots" is IMO not quite fair -- a high percentage are savvy geeks who knew the risk and took it to get an "open" machine that promised greater access and control. That's not idiotic at all -- I use Linux on my servers for the same reason.
Probably those geeks are not disappointed today -- they can service the machines themselves, just as I do with my Linux boxes. They can't upgrade the OS, but hey, I have lots of machines with 5-yr old OS software on them, running just fine.
But given the high likelihood of Psystar getting blown out of the water (just as occurred), I would say "suckers" is closer to the mark for all the rest of the non-geek Psystar customers, who are now high and dry.
Well, "idiots" is IMO not quite fair -- a high percentage are savvy geeks who knew the risk and took it to get an "open" machine that promised greater access and control. That's not idiotic at all -- I use Linux on my servers for the same reason.
The ones who get a machine themselves and research the information and do the "geek work" themselves, are not the idiots that I'm referring to.
I haven't classified them in there, and I say to them... if y'all can do that for yourselves and you want to put that much effort and time into it -- they obviously this interests you and you should "go for it" -- and I have no problem with that.
It's the other "idiots" from the consumer world, who couldn't even do the first step on something like that that we'll be hearing from in the future, saying that an Apple reseller sold them a stupid machine that doesn't work, that they went out of business and Apple won't stand behind their products... LOL...
And, for those who want to run Linux, I commend them for being so diligent and hard-working as to go through all that... :-) I don't call them idiots either...