Build your own Mac

[lateo]

http://buildyourownmac.com/

I was excited to learn of Apple switching to Intel. But then I learned that the Mac OSX may not run on an Intel platform the way MS Windows does. Hopefully this will be resolved because I believe Apple could really put a hurting on MS if they would just let the end user clone their machines.

[AntiCoup2K4]

1. Seems they tried to launch MAC clones a couple times in the past

First time was in the early 1990's when the MAC was still somewhat competititve in the market share. Then they tried again in the mid 90's. Not sure why they never took off. They were pricier than PC's but cheaper than the official MAC from what I remember.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

2. They sued the crap out of everybody who tried.

A Brazilian company called Unitron successfully cloned the very first Mac. They were sued into oblivion.

That's one of the reasons Macs never took off in Brazil.

[melissinha]

5. ha....

And you of all people know what they are doing now in Brazil with respect to Linux.... Brilliant, I tell you.

Gotta give Lula some props...

[Dukkha]

3. Jobs won't allow cloning

Power Computing did it in the 90's and was kicking Apple's ass at it. Their CPUs at the time were much more powerful, more expansion and options available, and considerably cheaper. This was when Apple's then top of the line 9500 was selling aroung $4k. Motorola and Umax made some too but weren't as stable. Daystar made the Genesis MP workstation with a whopping FOUR processors in one CPU. Imagine a G5 today running like that.

The move to Intel is a smart one. IBM just wasn't putting enough into R&D and the Mac processors suffered for it.

[lateo]

4. The move to Intel is a smart one.

But Jobs needs to allow for cloning...when he does Mac is going to kill MS.