New Mac Clones From Offshore
A PC company called Open Tech this week announced that it would follow in Psystar’s foot steps and sell Apple Mac clones. The kicker here is that Open Tech does not pre-install Leopard onto its computers. Simply put, the outfit’s PC is just a standard clone with instructions on how to install Mac OS X Leopard.
Looking through its offerings, Open Tech shows off two systems, the Open Tech Computer 1.0 and the Open Tech XT, each going for $620 USD and $1200 USD respectively. Unfortunately, no pictures are shown of the computers except for their generic cases.
On the store front, all the components listed are one per category. For example, there’s only one hard drive for sale, and it’s listed as "Internal 500GB Hard-drive" without any description of the product itself. Instead, Open Tech says that the drive holds "1066 action-packed games." We’re not quite sure what games Open Tech is going by, but it definitely isn’t any game in recent history. Using Open Tech’s metric, customers will only be able to install games that are roughly 400 MB large.
At this time, no orders can be placed on anything listed on Open Tech’s website. According to research, .tk websites are notorious for hosting scam related websites. Buying a PC in the U.S. from a company located in the Netherlands or in New Zealand, sounds like something users should be very cautious about.
Mac cloner Psystar is now feeling immense legal pressure from Apple, despite previously saying that it would do anything to "help" Apple out with sales. Recently, Psystar listed its office building for sale, after Apple filed a number of suits against Psystar. With Open Tech running its operations overseas, it all feels like murky waters from here on out.
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It is wrong to say that Tokelau is located IN New Zealand. Tokelau is in fact a territory OF New Zealand, since 1925, and is a group of three atolls located halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. Therefore there is nothing to be "cautious" about when buying a PC from New Zealand, because the statement is wrong. It should state "Tokelau". New Zealand does not have a bad reputation for rip-off companies in the PC sector, so this article should be amended and at least be factually correct.
Think the author never implied New Zealand has "a bad reputation for rip-off companies in the PC sector".
Re-reading his statement "Buying a PC in the U.S. from a company located in the Netherlands or in New Zealand, sounds like something users should be very cautious about." you should see my point.
*I have nothing against New Zealand either, I've lived there for 13 years.