Apple attacks Mac clones from Doral (Florida)

You worked way too hard.

"Apple could sell a Mac for $554 but they choose not to........." That's all I was responding to.

People state that they will not buy a stolen OS from people making crap computers and that make them self-righteous?

It breaks down when we know that Apple got paid for every copy of OS X that Psystar shipped. I don't know how Apple does the internal accounting, but they may have gotten paid more for each copy of OS X with a Psystar than when they ship a Mac loaded with OS X. I'm considering that retail generally costs more than pre-loaded.

Of course I still can't see why anyone would buy one of these, but that's a different issue.

"Apple could sell a Mac for $554 but they choose not to........." That's all I was responding to.

But, Purp, they do sell a Mac for $599.

It breaks down when we know that Apple got paid for every copy of OS X that Psystar shipped. I don't know how Apple does the internal accounting, but they may have gotten paid more for each copy of OS X with a Psystar than when they ship a Mac loaded with OS X. I'm considering that retail generally costs more than pre-loaded.

Joe and John are paying the cable company and the satellite company for the service they receive. They are merely reselling it...

The guy who was selling the DVDs ... well, he owns a digital camcorder small enough to sneak into a theater and taped the film off the screen. He paid for his ticket... he's just selling the experience he bought and paid for...

Then the statement is false.

BTW I derived my FR name from my old purple I-MAC and the last syllable of my first name.

The cable and satellite companies don’t get paid for each person who receives the service provided by Joe and John, the studios don’t get paid for the copies of pirate DVDs sold. Apple got paid for each copy of OS X that Psystar shipped. Apple just didn’t like getting paid that way.

Generic, technically yes, but EFI is pretty much non-existant on cheap PCs, actually on most PCs. The hack in large part involves getting OS X to run on an antiquated BIOS system.

Correct. Here's the requisite car analogy.

I recall several years ago seeing numerous Nissan sports cars in the "for sale" section of the want ads for amazingly low prices. These cars had about 20K miles on them and were going for several thousand dollars below blue book price.

So I started looking into it. It seemed that they were a good deal up front, until you find out that they all needed tires.

Seems Nissan sold some cars with a proprietary wheel rim size. You could only get tires from one company and they wanted nearly a thousand dollars a tire.

Nissan created an artificial scarcity by introducing a proprietary requirement with no good technical reason.

Likewise, Apple requires EFI to boot OSX, although there isn't any technical reason to do so. They could have used the standard IBM-type BIOS or something like OpenPROM, but they chose to introduce an artificial, non-technical requirement in order to restrict what PCs their OS would boot from.

This is quite apparent when you see the hacks that allow OSX to boot on generic PC hardware.

Likewise, Apple requires EFI to boot OSX, although there isn't any technical reason to do so.

BIOS is antiquated, that's technical reason enough. It's 16-bit, is tied to old AT hardware and can use only 1 MB of memory. Think if Nissan moved to new light-weight rims. EFI allows Macs to do things not available on PC BIOS systems.

BIOS is the main legacy left in PCs. Sun has Open Firmware, IBM has RTAS, Apple and Itanium systems use EFI, and there are others out there. Now that Vista finally recognizes EFI (Windows for Itanium was the only one that did before), expect to see BIOS slowly going away.