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Psystar's Rebel EFI Hackintosh Tool Reviewed, Found Wanting
CWmike writes "While the world focused on Microsoft's launch of Windows 7, Florida-based Psystar quietly launched Rebel EFI , a software product that should worry Apple a lot more than Microsoft's latest operating system. Rebel EFI allows users to run Apple's flagship operating system, Mac OS X ...
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Rebel EFI - Boot and Install any OS on your hardware
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Psystar's Rebel EFI Hackintosh Tool Reviewed, Found Wanting
Slashdot — ... final analysis: 'Psystar's Rebel EFI [ a free trial is available ] is an interesting tool, but it is very limited when it comes to the selection of hardware that you can use. The company really needs to create a compatible hardware list and post that on its Web site — and it also needs to create some usable documentation. As it stands right now, you can use Rebel EFI to build a Mac clone, but unless you stick to relatively generic hardware, you will be disappointed.'" Read more of this story at Slashdot. ...

Apple whacks the Hackintosh
The Inquisitr » Technology — ... The trend of using non-Apple computers to run Mac OS X has been increasing alongside the prominence and availability of netbooks, a category into which Apple hasn’t forayed. Poor people, plebians and tightwads have been flouting Apple for a while, running Apple’s precious shiny silver operating system on Dells and HPs, but it looks like Apple’s planning on throwing a wet blanket on these shenanigans. ...

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