When Psystar had charges brought on by Apple, for their Mac OS X clones they didn’t stand idly by. Psystar instead took proactive steps to fight back, even if their fight was a moot point.

Psystar’s claim against Apple, is that they are violating anti-trust laws by only allowing Mac OS X on Apple products. According to Psystar, this warranted an investigation for Apple to have a monopoly.

It was a relatively fast decision, as the judge has already dismissed the case. Apple is fairing better with their claim against Psystar, as it’s still pending.

So here’s an interesting nugget of information for you; Barack Obama is a Mac user. It’s true, according to Telegraph, who put together a list of 50 facts you might not know about the President-Elect.

To prove his “Mac Status” even more his wife, Michelle, has even stated to People magazine that her husband never travels without his webcam. Now, I’m not one to make assumptions… but if you add all the clues up it’s pretty easy to see that he’s probably a fan of iChat as well (since iChat is easily the best app for video chatting according to Gadget Lab).

Apple has just released its yearly revenue report, and what a year it has been. Nearly every sector of Apple saw growth from 2007-2008. eWeek has devised a simple chart showing the stats of Apple’s growth.

According to a MacWorld article we can expect to see no new Apple products before Christmas hits us in December.

Bill Evans, an Apple spokesman said this to MacWorld, “Our holiday line-up is set”. Short and sweet.

There had been rumors previous to this statement that led some to believe we’d see more Apple products. Some said we’d be seeing new iMacs, and iMac minis.

I tend to trust the spokesmen for cases like this. Unless they have something they want to surprise us with.

Miami, FL (PRWEB) October 28, 2008 — Psystar Corporation, the leading manufacturer of OS X-compatible PCs, is now shipping PCs with Blu-ray® optical disc drives and the nVidia® 9800GT graphics card. Psystar is shipping Blue-ray® and 9800GT equipped computers before Apple’s release of these peripheral products on their own computers. Apple, developer of the OS X operating system, has chosen to delay support for Blu-ray® with Apple CEO Steve Jobs citing it as “a bag of hurt” during the recent release of the new Apple notebooks. Psystar president Rudy Pedraza countered:

“Blu-ray has already won the format war. Not only is there fully functional and mature support for Blu-ray in other operating systems but you can now rent Blu-ray discs from almost any rental chain. Blu-ray has become pervasive technology that is being widely adopted by consumers everywhere,” says Pedraza.

Pedraza also pointed out that “Blu-ray is not just for movies. The ability to burn 25-gigabyte discs is a feature that can help users in media editing or enterprise environments keep archives of large file sets. Our systems, regardless of configured operating system, can now provide this functionality.”

Psystar has also brought nVidia’s GeForce 9800GT graphics card to its line of OS X compatible Open Computers. The GeForce 9800GT brings increased graphics performance for high-end game play and media editing. The GeForce 9-series has become ubiquitous in today’s PC hardware market although Apple currently does not currently offer the 9800GT on any computer.

Several sales promotions such as no-cost processor upgrades and shipping discounts are currently being offered on the Psystar website.

It looks as though Psystar might cash-in on their product releases before their court hearing.

I’m not sure how many asked for it, but it’s coming our way. The streaming service offered by Netflix is making its way to Macs soon.

The “watch instantly” option for Netflix hasn’t been available to Mac owners in the past. I’ve never seen it as a big deal, mostly because the selection of streaming movies has been limited at best.

I find it kind of funny that it’s Microsoft Silverlight that will be responsible for letting Mac users watch the streaming movies.

The service will be put through beta testing, with only a few members chosen. If you happen to be one, let me know how it works out for you.