Psystar, the manufacturer of Mac OS X clones, who has recently been dragged to court by Apple, had initially targeted to actually put Apple out of business by claiming that it would sell about 12 million units of its version of the popular PC every year, a report by Gregg Keizer of Computerworld on the sales projections that Psystar made to prospective investors, has revealed.

"Under its conservative projections, Psystar told investors it would sell 70,000 computers in 2009, 470,000 systems in 2010 and 1.45 million machines in 2011. The firm’s aggressive growth model, however, put those numbers at 130,000, 1.87 million and 12 million during 2009, 2010 and 2011, respectively. By comparison, Apple sold 10.4 million Macs during its 2009 fiscal year, the 12-month span that ended Sept. 30, 2009", shared Gregg Keizer.

According to the report, not only had Psystar told its investors that it would succeed and actually get away with cloning the OS X, but had actually gone ahead and claimed that it could get its hands on about 50% of the massive OS X PCs market, inspite of having a business plan that "guaranteed a bruising, pricey, possibly-fatal legal battle with the company that made the OS it used", as Keizer puts it.

As of now, despite having been taken to court, Psystar's online store remains open and functional, but it wouldn't be for very long because Apple is trying its very best to simply knock the cloner out of business.