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Beige Box Apple Clone?

Posted by michael on from the lawsuit-already-on-the-way dept.

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."

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  1. In a related story by ReidMaynard · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Seymore Butts is (sort of) getting into the auto business. His new design is based on the Lada "a sturdy, proven design", spouts Seymore, who's dual stigmatism, and constant beer consumption has made for many false starts in his new one-man car company.

    Off the shelf WWII components in a hap-hazard box style chassis, a barebones 'Butt-Mobile' will be around 300 USD and require a motor, seats and wheels. Complete systems should start at around 650 USD.

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  2. mac problem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.

    In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.

    I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.

    I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.