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Beige Box Apple Clone?
steve.m writes "Finally it looks like I'll be able to get a cheap box to run MacOSX on, but not from Apple! John Fraser is (sort of) getting into the clone business 5 years after Apple shut down their 3 year long 'experiment' in licensing the hardware. Based on off the shelf apple components in a custom pizza box style case with no bolted on display, a barebones 'iBox' will be around 300 USD and require a processor, disk and memory (and the OS). Complete systems (again, without the OS) should start at around 650 USD."
Isn't that what Dell's trying to do? ;-)
Why dont they let people simply make generic clones?
IBM certianly didn't die a horrible death and their line of PC workstations and laptops is still a strong seller.
Apple must be happy being 2nd and soon to be 3rd banana (yes linux users will overtake Apple users in numbers soon)
Hell Apple is second banana to the Pc conglomerate DELL!
maybe someday the executives will pull their heads out of their arses and get on the ball to increased profitability.
but I highly doubt it..
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Well... He's buying the hardware from Apple, he's making it possible for people with tight funds to go Apple and he'll also boost the sales of OS X, since it isn't included.
And maybe people like me, who would buy Apple if only their hardware wasn't so damn userunfriendly, can buy his hardware!
I love OS X, but I hate Apples keyboards, mouses and glidepoints.
Their computers really lack in the ergonomics department...
In particular the laptops. If only they would add a good keyboard and the choice of a trackpoint to them...
But I'm dreaming. No way that they'll actually make them usable, rather than nice to look at.
/.Mattsson - My native language is not English, so please don't whine over linguistic errors. (That's lame anyway...)