There’s a class of consumer that wants something they know they cannot have. For some of those people, a Macintosh computer not made by Apple has long been a desired goal. For most of the Mac’s ...

The Mac clone maker will pay Apple unspecified damages and try to shift responsibility for installing Apple's OS onto customers Apple and Mac clone maker Psystar agreed Monday to settle a 17-month ...

Their ability to keep one step ahead of Apple's ever-vigilant legal eagles is likely to spark more companies to brave the Mac clone waters. First off, building a system that can load Mac OS X is not ...

Psystar Corp., the Florida company fighting with Apple in federal court over selling computers that run Mac OS X, launched a new, slimmer clone. The $600 Open(3) computer, sold exclusively on the ...

Mac clone maker Psystar has agreed to pay Apple nearly $2.7 million in a partial settlement approved today by the federal judge who has overseen the 17-month case. Psystar has also halted sales of ...

Lawyers for the Mac clone maker fighting with Apple over copyright infringement charges have taken testimony from Philip Schiller, Apple’s head of marketing, and will depose other executives next week ...

System builders think the answer is likely the latter, yet either way, Psystar's David attempts to slay Apple's not-quite-Goliath remains something to which software giant Microsoft should pay close ...

The Mac clone maker battling with Apple over copyright infringement allegations complained to a federal judge Tuesday that a top Apple executive was “unprepared” and “unwilling to testify” during a ...

HyperMegaNet UG, the maker of Germany’s PearPC Mac clone, voiced confidence it would win a copyright infringement case against Apple in European courts. “We are not afraid of going to court with Apple ...

Remember PReP and CHRP? Well, they never really panned out. But a while ago, IBM released what they called POP, the PowerPC Open Platform. It seems to me that it might be possible to build a POP ...

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