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Looks like the Psystar Saga might finally be over.

From AppleInsider:

Less than 24 hours after its $2.675 million settlement with Apple was revealed, Psystar has removed all of its unauthorized machines equipped with Mac OS X for purchase from its online store.

[Read AppleInsider | After Apple agreement, Psystar officially halts sales of clone Macs]

I had refrained from commenting on the whole situation regarding rogue amoeba’s decision to stop developing for the iPhone because the whole thing had me seeing red with anger. No, not anger at Apple for it’s “unreasonable” app store policies, but anger that the story had gotten so much attention and that people weren’t calling rogue amoeba out for this bullshit. First of all, they claimed that tat the first rejection was ambiguous. Unless you’re suffering from a concussion, when Apple tells you your app is being rejected because it uses their copyrighted images, and you know you’re using Apple images, regardless of where they came from, to claim that you weren’t sure what they were referring to is disingenuous at best.

Finally someone succumbs to rationality in the ridiculous story that has been doing the rounds the last few days. I was trying to work up the energy to respond to the nonsense myself |(but I’ve been sick with a bad bacterial flu and bronchitis) but thankfully Ars Technica has seen calm amid the phoney outrage. In case you missed it, some hacker on his or her blog noted that the code pertaining to the CPUs in an unreleased 10.6.2 has been changed significantly and that the side effect of this is that the Intel Atom CPU is no longer supported. This in turn means that popular hackintosh netbooks would no longer work with 10.6.2. This caused the collective mental implosion of nerds all over the internet with cries of outrage at this heinous crime. So from one hackers blog post about code changes in an unreleased version of OS X within a few hours it had become Apple declaring war on the hackintosh community. From a report that Apple my be removing support for Atom CPUs the leap was made to “Apple is disabling Atom processors” Considering Apple has never made a system with an Atom CPU, the fact that some people felt entitled to continued Atom support is hilarious. But it is the adamance by many, that this is some sort of malicious move on Apple’s, with no evidence whatsoever other than a blog post on some random hacker’s blog, that is just shocking.