What can we make of the Psystar story? A cheap Mac clone or a very well conceived business stole the attention these days. Who is Psystar? Where did it come from? Is it legit? Is the OpenComputer offer for real? What’s with all the address changes in the past days? And the questions could go on. Answering them is what makes things harder…

While trying to find out more about Psystar, the newspapers just created more blur, as the ambiguity couldn’t get much deeper. Pictures of possible locations and addresses emerged every hour, and with each hour, Psystar became even more enigmatic, until it decided to break the silence of course.

Now that the company’s website is back online, they explained that the first location of the company, which appeared to be in a suburban area, was in fact an error: “The first new address posted (10481) was in error and our correct address is 10475 NW 28th Street. PSYSTAR was, prior to this past week, not ready to handle the enormous production capacity demanded by the online community. Due to the incredible response we have now expanded to a larger commercial unit to handle the supplies and assembly of Open Computers. THANK YOU for all of your orders.”

They also gave an explanation for the credit card problems: “Midday yesterday our store was not receiving any orders. This was due to the fact that our merchant gateway, Powerpay, dropped the ball on us and refused to process any more transactions from our company. We have reverted to Paypal until we can find a high-volume merchant. Apparently Powerpay was not ready to handle the community's demand for Open Computing.”

Days ago, the Miami, Florida PC maker started shipping versions of Apple Mac Pro called OpenMac for roughly $400. For an extra $150 or $155, the customers could get anything from Windows XP to Windows Vista or OS X Leopard. However, the matter turned public due to possible repercussions from Apple for breaking its EULA (Apple made no comments on the situation so far).

Despite all the discussions on the legal matters Psystar might get into, with Apple, whose license for Leopard only includes Apple hardware, or with Netkast, the creators of the EFI V8 emulator that runs OS X, the infamous Psystar employee Robert said they’re not breaking any laws.