PsyStar Gets ‘0′ Stars

I bought the PsyStar “Mac Clone”. I tried. I really tried because I firmly believe that it would be a good thing for humanity to have OS X on more than 8% of desktops - especially since they are largely always on. The bad guys use the clueless masses to penetrate, obfuscate and cause endless mayhem.

After hours and hours of playing and talking with PsyStar, I have concluded that this product, while potentially very cool, is not ready. Period. Do not buy it. Yet, that is. They need to really upgrade, fix and make the entire experience far better than it is.

In short:

•     I bought the PsyStar without OS X cause I have my own licensed (legal) family packs.
• It arrived a few weeks late.
• The lack of documentation is pretty bad, especially for nube users. You have to know what you’re doing.
• Then it still doesn’t work.
• Unable to recognize or load OS X no matter what.

Their tech support people were pretty useless.

“You should have bought it with OS X installed.”

“It’s really really hard to install and make it work.”

Then why does PsyStar and its sales dept offer it naked? Big mistake.

So, recommendation:

• Do not buy a PsyStar - yet.
• Wait till V2.0 comes out. At least.

You get what you pay for. Nothing.

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