A small company called Psystar has started sales of a cheap Mac clone. The new Mac clone is the first of it’s kind in many years, since the days with Powercomputing and UMAX making Macs, and is called OpenMac. OpenMac comes with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard compatibility via emulated EFI firmware that supposedly cheats Mac OS X into accepting that OpenMac is a genuine Mac.

The new OpenMac sells for 399 dollars and comes in many configurations. The base configuration inlcudes a 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 Processor, 2GB of DDR2 667 memory, Integrated Intel GMA 950 Graphics, 20x DVD+/-R SATA drive that is Lightscribe-capable and 4 rear USB Ports.

“The highly extensible OpenMac is a configuration of PC hardware capable of running unmodified OS X Leopard kernels. If you purchase Leopard with your OpenMac we will not only include the actual Leopard retail package with genuine installation disc, but we also include a Psystar restore disc for your OpenMac and we will preinstall Leopard for free so you can begin to use your computer right out of the box”, Psystar writes.

Updated: The Psystar web site is currently down.