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October 28, 2008

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Psystar releases Nvidia 9800GT and Blu-Ray desktop Mac clones

Posted Oct. 28, ’08, 11:16 AM PT by Cyrus Farivar
Category | Apple » Rivals

psystar.jpgJust because Psystar and Apple recently decided to enter into arbitration instead of going to court doesn’t mean that Psystar isn’t going to try to sell as many machines as possible before the final decision comes down, no siree bob.

In fact, today, Psystar decided to one-up Apple, not only releasing a new model of clone, but one that comes with a built-in, patented Blu-Ray bag of hurt plus Nvidia’s new 9800GT graphics card—beating Apple to the punch, at least for now.

I’m guessing that this will give Messrs. Cooperman and Yorio lots to arbitrate.


6 Comments

Tony D said:

Unless I'm wrong its my understanding that Blue ray requires dome kind severe DRM at the OS level. I'm no technician nor hacker, so how would they get it to work with Mac OS. Or am I misunderstanding the issue?

October 28, 2008 11:31 AM
Dan Moren Author Profile Page said:

@Tony D: There are definitely some adjustments that would need to be made to get Blu-ray to even mount on OS X (it's not supported by the OS out of the box). However, Toast 9 will burn Blu-ray discs in OS X.

Commercial Blu-ray movies are an entirely different story, and they're not supported on the Mac platform at present. Period.

October 28, 2008 11:54 AM
JEffEd said:

Wouldn't it play fine through your favorite WinApp in VMware? Heck, if you have it in Unity, what's the different, other than it being two apps rather than one.
I'd be curious to know for sure whether or not that works....

October 28, 2008 2:32 PM
spiderbat said:

Until some months ago, I was convinced that clones could but hurt Apple, Mac OS X and, eventually, Mac users.
Whit the growing trend by Apple of dictating what we users must love (e.g., glossy screens) and do without (e.g., FireWire) and what we must do with our machines (e.g., produce videos to be watched on tiny screens and eschew DVD), I'm looking forward to some humbler company that might give me more choice.

@Dan: in principle, showing movies from Blue-Ray discs is just taking digital data from a device, elaborating them and feeding them to the graphic card; therefore, theoretically, developing an application for this purpose shouldn't be impossible. Of course, doing it from scratch, without exploiting the OS or even "fighting" against it, is a feat that is not very likely to be accomplished in the near future, both for technical and economical reasons.

October 29, 2008 12:57 AM
aMUSICsite said:

A laptop with firewire would have made more of a splash...

October 29, 2008 5:00 AM
commodity trading account said:

Great mac osx with bluray...sounds good.
How about the price of this new toy?

October 29, 2008 12:38 PM

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