You’ve been able to run Windows on your Mac for a while now. Now you can run Leopard on your PC.
OpenMac allows you to buy a PC (cheaper) but use the OS of a Mac (prettier). Pretty simple huh? Afterall Parallels and Boot Camp have allowed you to buy a Mac and (when you absolutely must) run Windows on it. The difference is that Mac and Windows both openly support these apps but we are not so sure where Apple stand on OpenMac. OpenMac is rather newer and playing dirty when it comes to marketing, namely price wars: MacMini starts at $599, OpenMac costs $399 (and unlike the MacMini is not “small and not very powerful”). Two-thirds the price and higher spec? Sounds pretty good. Is Apple’s design and emotional brand allure enough to bridge this gap? Or will it succumb to competing on the very rational tech specs arms race that PC users are so used to? Somehow I doubt it.
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Steve W 14 Apr 2008
ReportThat’s $399 + $129 = $528 with Mac OS X , or
$399 + $145 = $544 with Windows XP Pro.
That’s $399 + $129 + $145 = $673 with both.
Roi 14 Apr 2008
ReportThis isn’t anything new. If I wanted to do this I’d build my own PC, which would probably be cheaper and then install Hackintosh onto it.