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Build Your Own PowerPC?

Posted by Cliff on from the why-not? dept.

amokk asks: "Let's assume for a second that somebody would want to take the time and effort to build a Personal Computer but base it on a PowerPC architecture. Besides saying 'Buy a Mac' (I already have one) or 'Buy an IBM server', is there any way of acquirng the individual parts and slapping them together? Why you would want to do this isn't up for debate. Rather, this is one of those 'wouldn't it be neat if...' type of experiments."

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  1. Real Biodiesel... by dman123 · · Score: 2, Flamebait
    Here is my biased opinion on the subject...

    Unfortunately, it's people like these people in Wales that give industrially produced biofuels (such as biodiesel manufactured to ASTM D6751-02) a bad name. A bunch of wankers that ruin engines with chip particles and undecanted glycerin deserve to have the engines fail... Not to mention that it is technically illegal to evade taxes in this manner.

    For anyone wishing to get the non-hippie version of the biodiesel industry, check out www.biodiesel.org.

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  2. Re:The other part of the question... by 0x0d0a · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    Apple's never going to start up clones again after getting burned so bad on them last time (and as a result, I'm never going to get an Apple system again.)

    Also, what company would be stupid enough to throw tons of money at building up a brand only to be at Apple's mercy? That takes a lot of faith, and you saw what happened last time someone had faith in Apple not to screw them over...

    This whole thing reminds me of this (older, 680x0 era) book "Build your own Macintosh and Save a Bundle".

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