What hardware makes the AmigaOne different to a Mac?

[mantisspider]

Hi Guys,

Im confused at the moment about the development of the AmigaOne. I figure that all Apple computers are patented and protected so that only they can make them. But what harddware makes the AmigaOne differ from a Apple Mac?

I ask this cos the Apple have got a various line up of machines desktops n laptops, but they all run MacOS. Seeing as the AmigaOne and MacOS are PPC based operating systems, could you just install amiga OS4 on a mac? I would think so as the AmigaOne would recognise the hardware devices as they are generic AGP and PCI components and the CPU is the same but what about all the other components that make up the motherboard?

Disecting the AmigaOne and a Mac.... same components different places?

cheers guys its 4am so this probably doesnt make sense...

oh forget about all the legal issues, if a end user takes upon himself to install os4 ona mac surely its not AmigaIncs responsaiblitlyy

[mantisspider]

so unless the amigaOS looks for something specific on the BIOS then it should be cool. even then as u say flashing the bios would solve that too. its the hows that matter. :-D without the os to play with its just speculation however runing OS4 on a laptop would be cool.