Well it seems that the Mac-clone company has finally pissed off Apple to the point of a law suit. I just found out about this company a few weeks ago and was surprised that they had lasted this long without any altercations from Apple.

But, when I opened up my email today I had a letter from ZDNet with the subject “Apple files suit against Psystar”. So, I guess Apple had enough and is opening up a “legal” can of woop-ass. Don’t worry, that is the first and last time I’ll be using that phrase.

What I find kind of funny, (and maybe a little sad), is the fact that I had seriously taken this company into consideration. Like buying one of their cheaper products, and just seeing if it really is a Mac clone.

Well, that was before I read up on them. Not only are they big on copyright infringement, they are nothing but low level pirates trying to make a few bucks. Apparently, with their bootleg Macs (that’s what I’m calling it now at least) Software Update fails, iLife won’t install, (though I didn’t read this but I’d say Office 2004 & 2008 won’t install or update!) and I guess Leopard all  around just acts funny. (Not the good funny either!)

But yeah, say goodbye to Psystar. You can read about the lawsuit here.

Whether or not this is true – I don’t know –but apparently Apple is even demanding Psystar reclaim all their sold products. Now, I don’t know how many they’ve actually sold (and lets hope not that many) but you can bet a few people have bought them — and they aren’t going to want to give them up. When you buy a computer, you customize it to your liking, and when the company you bought it from tells you that you can’t have it anymore, that does nothing but make you furious. At least, it would to me.

Here is what I think Psystar should do: Pay Apple however much the law suit goes for, and then buy all their customers who got ripped off by them, an authentic top-of-the-line Apple. Comparable to what they already have. Because from what I saw on their website, they were offering 8 GB models for 899 [or somewhere close to that]. That means they are going to have to pay about 3 times as much for a comparable model. I’m going to guess Psystar doesn’t have that kind of money (or at least they definitely won’t after the law suit is over with) — So it looks like either loans are going to have to happen, or its Bankruptcy.

Good job Apple. Bye Bye Psystar.

(SO, by writing this post, I get a free Apple product now…right? — no, I didn’t buy anything from Psystar. But I took time and effort. Come on.. Mac Mini?)