Psystar, who, believe it or not, have taken to calling themselves, “the leading provider of Mac-compatible computers,” as if Apple doesn’t exist, has announced the release of the OpenServ.
According to Psystar, the OpenServ is capable of running practically any server software, ranging from Linux, Windows, to Mac OS X Leopard Server.
The OpenServ comes with a variety of choices, stemming from a single Xeon 2.5Ghz quad-core E5420 processor to Dual Xeon 2.66Ghz quad-core E5430 processors. It is available with anywhere between 4GB and 16GB of fully buffered DDR2 RAM, plus the OpenServ offers up to 6 drive bays on tool-less rails, in a rackmount form factor. The OpenServ is available in two varieties: the 1u version (referred to as the 1100) and the 2u version (2400).
According to Psystar, “the bare bones quad-core Apple Xserve costs up to $2,949, while a similarly configured Pystar OpenServ is available in a comparable stripped down form for just $1,599.”
See the OpenServ models here.
Source: Psystar
When is Apple going to squash this bug?
What is a “comparable stripped down form”? Is comparable? or stripped down? Can’t really be both.
Ahhh, hmmmm. Do they have 24 hour tech support?
If you are going to go cheap for a server, then buy a Mac Mini.
They’re probably still too small for now for Apple to care.
“the leading provider of Mac-compatible computers,”
They are right about this since Apple computers are real Macs, not just Mac compatibles. Sadly if Apple doesn’t pull their head out and make an inexpensive headless mac with a video slot, Psystar will probably be selling me my next computer.
I agree with you “Think”, Macminicolo.net has been a god send for our business. A Mac mini is less expensive than this “Openserv”, it’s officially supported, and it works great. Just throw an external hard drive on there and you’re set.
Psystar is digging a hole they can’t even comprehend. They will hit rock bottom, look up and realize they have buried themselves like no other. I should know. I dig holes like this with women ALL THE TIME.
Think their servers run with all fans blazing 24/7 just like their towers? Sign me up!!!
I have to say, I hope Apple sues ‘psystar’ into complete oblivion. Using someone else’s property and ideas (OS X) shows not only is psystar completely unimaginative (why not use the infinitely customizable Linux?), but thinks it has some moral ‘right’ to profit from someone else’s years of hard work.
If Steve Jobs is Hank Rearden, then psystar is apparently a company full of James Taggarts – looters to the core…
Oh, and does anyone else spot the irony of MDN doing their advertising for them in the Mac community..?
“We’ve just received this tape from an Islamist web site, we think it could be a secret communication to Al Qaeda sleeper cells. Let’s watch…”
To C1:
Al Qaeda is making cartoons from classic Woody Allen movies?
This company will self-destruct. Wait till they have software update issues.
@ Polly,
Are you running a stock Mini or are you installing OS X Server?
Anybody else using a Mini as a server?
@ Ampar
If only we could lock them all up Orgamatrons for a few years. I bet they wouldn’t stop bitching about Habeas Corpus!!!
@ OBill-Wan Kenobi
http://www.chrissyone.com/ is running on a Mini. I used to run Server on it, but I didn’t need anything more fancy than Client OS X, so it’s just running Tiger now. I rarely ever look at the UI, it’s sharing the second screen with my iMac.
PsyStar, well what are they up to? It is difficult to fathom. Usually one can get a clue from the name, in this case we have:
Psy
Star
Psy is usually used as an abbreviation for psychological, as in PSYOP.
Star is far off and bright.
As I said, it is a mystery.
As for A-Q, no mystery. Robin Cook was Foreign Secretary of the ‘Mother of all Parliaments’ in the correct time frame. Shortly before he mysteriously vanished from this world he had this to say:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/jul/08/july7.development
Part two was promised but never emerged.
MW = did
Did you? What? Think?
Oops no, we can’t have that, delete this post.
They just keep digging that hole deeper and deeper don’t they.
It’s going to get so deep that Apple might not have to lift a finger to bury them.
Why not let Psystar and other clone makers be for now, lure lots of new OSX users into the fold – the ones who usually complain that Macs are too expensive and would never buy a computer from Apple – then release the hounds. These new users would be invested in OSX by then and when they need to upgrade, would likely buy Macs.
I think Apple is just waiting for Psystar to get some net worth, so that when Apple sues them they can actually get some bucks.
You mess with the bull… well you know what you will get
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Clearly, for all of psystar’s ‘admiration’ of Apple’s OS tech, they haven’t taken to heart the fundamental truth of Steve’s philosophy – make your own hardware? Then make your OWN software, too!
If psystar had any self-respect or ambition to actually be taken seriously, they ought to build their own OS from the ground up, using a Linux kernel as a basis perhaps.
Instead, they remind us why Microsoft has never really gained an ounce of respect for its ‘innovations’ to date. Afterall, it took strongarming – coercion – to get Windows in people’s lives.
Apple never practiced that, and look where it is, today.
Being the creator of OS X, Apple is under no obligation to offer its work as public property. OS X can be as ‘exclusive’ and ‘closed source’ as Steve decides.
@zaxxon4: “Sadly if Apple doesn’t pull their head out and make an inexpensive headless mac with a video slot, Psystar will probably be selling me my next computer.”
So be it, then. Apple will NOT make a cheapo box for a loud minority of geeks. It’s not part of their business strategy to race to the bottom by selling low-priced, low-quality crap like Dell does.
The days of towers for home are numbered anyway…
Does it come with a sound proof room? Or is that an optional extra?
Wheat! Wheat!
HEY LOOK! Their bringing back the floppy. awesome
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