Psystar Corporation

Psystar Corporation was a company based in Miami, Florida, owned by Rudy and Robert Pedraza which sold "Open Computers". These computers, first announced in April 2008, had the option of being pre-installed with Mac OS X Leopard, making them the first commercially distributed "hackintosh" computers. In November 2009, a U.S. Federal District Court ruled Psystar violated Apple's copyrights in doing so. Some of Apple's "trade secrets" officially entered into public view as a result of the lawsuit in January 2012.

Rebel EFI

Rebel EFI was a product from Psystar that helped users to install Mac OS X on "regular" x86 computers. A trial version was free of charge, but the full version required payment. The Rebel EFI was not an original work of Psystar, but was based on an open source program called boot-123 from the OSx86 Project.

Early concerns

Early efforts to research Psystar shortly after their announcement of a Mac clone in April 2008 resulted in questions regarding the company’s very existence and just how legitimate they were. Several addresses were provided (five in four days) and Psystar was taking credit card numbers but not processing them because their processing company, Powerpay, had revoked Psystar’s account "for three primary reasons: product/services not as represented in application, sales volumes grossly exceeded, no address verification utilized"; and there were claims that their website had malware on it.