As if the Florida-based company had not done enough to put Apple's dogs of law into a rabid frenzy of legal activity, Psystar has announced that it will "begin certifying manufacturer's hardware to allow the licensing of Psystar's new virtualisation technology, effectively making their systems Mac OSX compatible."

"Psystar's virtualisation technology, specifically engineered for Snow Leopard, allows for seamless operation of OSX on generic Intel hardware and would be offered on all Psystar Certified machines," the company says, further fanning the flames.

An interesting one this, but there is no doubt a cat and mouse game. Apple seem to be having similar issues with the FacePalm Pré. Any future OS release will likely break non Apple hardware installs.

Psystar either knows that it has really nothing to lose by carrying on - it’s small, and any financial penalty it has to pay will be above and beyond it’s own war chest’s capacity. The other scenario is that there are others in the background who are financing this - a big name who does not want to be directly implicated. You can bet that whatever the constitution of Psystar, Dell, HP and others are watching on with interest.

I suspect that as well. Though it could backfire on them. The problem is that Apple will state if you want to copy our business model fine, just do your own version of linux and market it yourselves.

Apple's own expensive and desireable machines

Apple's own expensive machines

Some on the Web are suggesting that the advent of Windows 7 more or less evens the playing-field in terms of OS quality. W7 has some features OSX doesn't and vice-versa. If you believe this (I use both OSX & W7, and I agree) then there is little to commend running OSX on non-Apple hardware...

I would say that Vista did that, it just has a bad reputation amongst die hard XP users...

I quite like Vista. It's just as annoying as Windows always has been, but it's quite pleasant to look at and works reasonably well.