Most users will agree that a Mac computer costs more than a similar Windows based system. One reason for the increased cost of Mac systems is that Apple doesn’t license its operating system. This means that you are only supposed to be able to get the Mac OS on complete computers built by Apple. That little fact doesn’t stop some from trying to make Mac clones– like Psystar.

The problem with firms like Psystar that try to sell Mac clones with the Mac Os pre-installed is that it breaks the software license and leads to Apple suing the firms into oblivion. A company called RSOL PC has announced a new computer called the Jive that it says is Multi-platform capable. The Jive machine can be had with no OS or pre-installed Windows, Ubuntu, and Fedora.

RSOL PC says that the machine is fully capable of running Mac OS, but won’t ship the machine with Mac OS installed to circumvent the ire of Apple’s legal department. The specs of the Jive include an Intel E4600 Core 2 Duo, 500GB HDD, NVIDIA 7300GS graphics and more for $628 plus shipping. If you look at a computer the way RSOL is, any x86 processor based PC has the same multi-platform capabilities.

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