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Psystar "Definitely Still Shipping" Mac Clones
Preedit writes "Continuing its defiance of Apple, Psystar is reassuring customers that it is "definitely still shipping" its line of Mac clones. And, in a further nose-thumbing at Steve Jobs, Psystar this week said it's now making Leopard restore disks available to its customers, even as Apple insists that Mac clones sold to date be recalled.
In its story on the latest developments, Infoweek is reporting that tiny Psystar apparently has no intention of backing down in its legal dispute with the much larger Apple."
Good, Microsoft and Apple competing on a more level playing field. As far as the variety and ease of drivers goes, Windows XP Just Works(tm) where Mac does not. I'd choose XP over OSX anyday. Vista, however, is a different story!
About 80% of Windows blue-screens are due to drivers, according to various Microsoft studies of crash dumps. It's pretty significant. I suspect the rest are hardware on its way out ... the Windows kernel has been debugged for many years and is now pretty solid.
I wish I could say the same for my MacBook Pro. I've never seen a kernel panic but the thing regularly refuses to come back from sleep, or wakes up and then goes back to sleep, or comes back from sleep in some semi-corrupted way where the keyboard doesn't work.
Given that Apple do control every bit of hardware in this machine, and most of the software (all I've got here is regular apps), how the hell did a roughly 50% failure rate for resume escape their testing? Or maybe it didn't and they decided to ship anyway. Every time I am left dicking around with this machine trying to resurrect it after yet another resume failure I remember the "it just works" slogan and become that tiny bit more cynical.