Aha, I thought that looked too good to be something I wanted. Theprice looks
nice but I will stick with Apple I think.
Sara
----- Original Message -----
From: Jacob Schmude
To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 5:14 PM
Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: MAC clones? Psystar's Online Store - Open
Computing Solutions featuring Mac OS X Leopard, Windows and Linux
Hi Keith
What they've done is a standard install of OS X, as if you were to build a
hackintosh. There's nothing different about the operating system at all, in
fact they use a standard retail installation DVD from Apple. Voiceover,
therefore, should be no different at all, though depending on what audio card
you get you may or may not be able to install OS X yourself, as the dvd may not
have audio drivers for your card at installation time. This can easily be
overcome with a USB headset, though.
Also note that these are not Mac clones, they are standard X86 PCs that have
been carefully built in order to be able to run OS X. However, certain points
about their architecture remain different such as the use of BIOS instead of
EFI and, due to this, they're using emulation on some of the low level hardware
layers--i.e. they have a software EFI layer. In general, if you don't know what
this means you probably want a straight Mac, as you will eventually have to
deal with this. One consequence of this is that Apple's OS X updates aren't
installed unmodified, and in fact Psystar has replaced Apple's software update
utility with one of their own designed to only install safe updates. Hense, you
don't always get OS updates right away, and there is the distinct possibility
than an os update didn't get modified properly and renders your system
unbootable until you fix it. These are, in effect, commercial hackintoshes, not
Mac clones.
On Oct 30, 2008, at 13:40, Keith Reedy wrote:
Well, there is a big brew-ha-ha about it at this time, but, for now, there
are MAC clones and I just wondered how Voiceover works with them. Take a look
here.
http://store.psystar.com/