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My anecdote cancels your anecdote?

I call your anecdote and raise one poll. More than 80% of Mac owners polled own more than one - of course the sample is rather small and not necessarily representative, but it does weaken the GP's uncited claim.

According to reports: http://forums.mactalk.com.au/20/56127-coming-soon-censored-internet-15.html#post668070

The list of excluded sites used in testing includes sites like: "The Pirate Bay, demonoid, mininova, Erowid (the web's best known haven of drug info) and 4chan"

Australia's 3 commercial tv stations are struggling under the load of huge debts and poor revenue, time to throw them a bone I guess.

Is cramming MacOS onto a wholly unsuitable machine the new version of doing the same thing with Linux?

people bought clones because they were less expensive than the real thing.

Some did, but I recall that some people were buying some of the higher-end clones because they offered some advanced dual- and quad-CPU options (for example, DayStar Digital) that were unavailable or under-spec'd by Apple at that time. In many case, they were paying the same or more for these than extant retail for Apple kit.

I found a short clip of Jobs exerting the Reality Distortion Field wrt clone licences. Jobs derides their value, but this says they were a 7.25% royalty... low, but not "$50", assuming an average of $2,000 retail for every Power Computing machine, some 50,000 generating $100m in sales.

All in all Jobs' attitude presented quite a change from Apple's earlier I Think We're A Clone Now enthusiasm. Here's another vintage video, a news extract describing Apple's short-lived experiment with Macintosh licensing.

Under Jobs, Apple resorted to several strategies to squelch the Mac cloners. One cunning method was to rebrand OS 7.7 as OS 8, thereby voiding existing pricing deals and enabling Apple to reset terms that were more punitive. In the case of Power Computing, Apple paid $100m to buy the company outright, including all its IP, and thus shut down one of the more prominent cloners. Apple also got PC's impressive direct ordering system modelled on Gateway/Dell , which enabled it to build out its apple.com sales channel.

More than one case, apparently. Traced links back here, and other posts also seem to indicate more issues than one...

These people are way behind the curve. The Mac community did this years ago, running OS X 10.3 on an old 25 MHz Mac.

Because of the software emulation required to run the PowerPC code on a 68k machine, the person who did the experiment estimated that booting up should take about 7 days. :-)

http://mactalk.com.au/articles/68kpanther/ describes how 10.3 'runs' on a Centris. From TFA: "The victi^WMac used for this little project is a Centris 650, with 68MB RAM, a 25MHz 68040 and 4GB drive". Some cheating (Pear PC) was involved though.