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Title: Apple Intel Illegal Clone
Post by: asian1 on May 15, 2006, 08:24:42 AM

Is it possible for a PC vendor to buy the license from Apple in the future?

From Inquirer:

The latest thing is a "PowerPC G6 Macintosh", an "Apple G6 Macintosh-Clone Computer" with a 3.8GHz Pentium 4. These come with shedloads of OSx86 compatible hardware, and pre-loaded with something called a "Mac OSX-86 Apple MacOS X Tiger 10.4.3".
The beasts are being made in China and South America, but unlike the real Apple machines, these clones will cost you only $500.
The clones were spotted by some of the OSX86 project members .

Title: Re: Apple Intel Illegal Clone
Post by: bloodline on May 15, 2006, 09:06:17 AM

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asian1 wrote:
Is it possible for a PC vendor to buy the license from Apple in the future?

Not as long as Apple are are hardware company.

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From Inquirer:

The latest thing is a "PowerPC G6 Macintosh", an "Apple G6 Macintosh-Clone Computer" with a 3.8GHz Pentium 4. These come with shedloads of OSx86 compatible hardware, and pre-loaded with something called a "Mac OSX-86 Apple MacOS X Tiger 10.4.3".
The beasts are being made in China and South America, but unlike the real Apple machines, these clones will cost you only $500.
The clones were spotted by some of the OSX86 project members .

Just goes to show that the Mac platform is in a very healthy state right now.

Title: Re: Apple Intel Illegal Clone
Post by: boing on May 25, 2006, 11:54:08 AM

Except that the Mac is no longer a Mac.  It's an x86 box running a unix varient with a bundled Mac emulator.  Those things existed over 10 years ago.

Title: Re: Apple Intel Illegal Clone
Post by: bloodline on May 26, 2006, 10:09:11 AM

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boing wrote:
Except that the Mac is no longer a Mac.  It's an x86 box running a unix varient with a bundled Mac emulator.  Those things existed over 10 years ago.

If you want to get technical... The current line of Macs are NeXT boxes with a new user interface and MacOS compatible API layer.

An approach that the Amiga should have taken if the parent companies actually wanted it to survive.

Title: Re: Apple Intel Illegal Clone
Post by: nadoom on May 26, 2006, 12:38:56 PM

a mac is whatever apple mac want to it be, are powerpc macs real macs? of course they are! the same applies to X86

Title: Re: Apple Intel Illegal Clone
Post by: bloodline on May 28, 2006, 02:25:40 PM

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nadoom wrote:

the same applies to X86

BURN THE HERITIC!?!?! Oh, you were talking about Macs... carry on ;-)

Title: Re: Apple Intel Illegal Clone
Post by: nadoom on May 28, 2006, 02:38:22 PM

no, no bloodline i fully accept the amiga bubble philosophy