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Mac Clone Maker Psystar Offers $299 Linux PC (Information Week)Mac Clone Maker Psystar Offers $299 Linux PC (Information Week)Posted Oct 24, 2008 6:28 UTC (Fri) by jamesh (subscriber, #1159)In reply to: Mac Clone Maker Psystar Offers $299 Linux PC (Information Week) by proski Parent article: Mac Clone Maker Psystar Offers $299 Linux PC (Information Week)
Are you actually surprised that they'd offer a computer at a low profit margin and extras at a high margin? Computer sellers have been doing this for years (and car dealers before hand, etc).
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Mac Clone Maker Psystar Offers $299 Linux PC (Information Week) Posted Oct 24, 2008 14:41 UTC (Fri) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] I'm not surprised when Dell or HP do it. They also have good deals on some upgrades. They offer more choices and they are well established on the market. But Psystar is just entering the Linux PC market.
Mac Clone Maker Psystar Offers $299 Linux PC (Information Week) Posted Oct 24, 2008 22:06 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
It's a 'trick'.
I expect their rational on the matter is that they can continue to sell hardware to people for the purposes of running OS X on cheap machines, but can avoid Apple's lawsuites due to the fact that they ship a different OS.
I would not be surpised if they just dump a default install of Ubuntu on it with no attempts at quality control, or making sure that all the hardware is supported, or anything like that. Without a review telling me otherwise I would not choose to purchase from these guys.
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