Do you crave a Mac but baulk at shelling out thousands of dollars for Apple's alternative PCs?A company by the name of Psystar may have the answer for you. On Monday it released what it calls an Open Mac, for 400 dollars. The clones, which are standard Intel-based machines, use a piece of software wizardry called an Extensible Firmware Interface to trick Apple's Leopard operating system into thinking it is running on a genuine Mac.

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Apr 14, 2008 19:36     

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Old news.

Apr 15, 2008 00:57     

Cracked versions of Mac OSX has been on torrent site for a long time. It used the same idea, trick the installer to think your PC is a mac, then it would install. The catch is you have to have certain Intel chipset CPU, and good luck on finding the rest of your hardware drivers.
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