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Our Blogs Core Dump It's not a clone, but it can run Mac OS X
Our Blogs Core Dump It's not a clone, but it can run Mac OS X | It's not a clone, but it can run Mac OS X |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Tuesday, 29 July 2008 | |
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Page 1 of 2 The specs are pretty typical - 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, 500G hard drive, DVD burner, 2G RAM, nVidia GeForce 7300GS video card, Gigabit Ethernet and so on - and the only operating systems the company is actually selling are Windows XP and Vista. Fedora or Ubuntu Linux are available as factory options as a service to customers. The RSOL Jive is priced from $US628, excluding monitor and operating system. In an apparent effort to distance the company from Psystar's legal woes, a RSOL spokesperson said ""We've made it clear that our company and Apple, Inc are not affiliated in any manner, and anyone wishing to run Mac OS X is best advised to buy an authentic Mac computer from an Apple authorized retailer. Our computers are not 'Mac clones', and RSOL PC does not market them as such." Fair enough. But the press release announcing the Jive Series also said the computer "has been tested to be capable of running all major operating systems like Windows XP, Windows Vista, popular Linux distributions of Ubuntu and Fedora, and even the modified version of Apple, Inc's OS X 10.5 Leopard, commonly known as 'OSx86'." And how exactly do they know that? Please read on. |
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