Attack of the Clones?
Hmm... interesting article at wired.com this morning.
Pizza Box or iMac? No, an iBox
A Minnesota man has plans to launch his own Macintosh-manufacturing business, building a low-cost, upgradeable Mac called the iBox.
John Fraser, a 21-year-old engineer from Chanhassen, Minnesota, is finalizing the design for his flat "pizzabox" Mac and hopes to go into production in three to four months. If successful, Fraser will be the first third party to make a Mac since Apple shut down its three-year experiment in clone licensing in 1997.
It will be interesting to see how Apple deals with this. He's buying parts from suppliers (like OWC), but I'm sure the legal mafia at Apple are already breaking out the ammo.
I know Matsu will be getting his order in early, anyways.
Pizza Box or iMac? No, an iBox
A Minnesota man has plans to launch his own Macintosh-manufacturing business, building a low-cost, upgradeable Mac called the iBox.
John Fraser, a 21-year-old engineer from Chanhassen, Minnesota, is finalizing the design for his flat "pizzabox" Mac and hopes to go into production in three to four months. If successful, Fraser will be the first third party to make a Mac since Apple shut down its three-year experiment in clone licensing in 1997.
It will be interesting to see how Apple deals with this. He's buying parts from suppliers (like OWC), but I'm sure the legal mafia at Apple are already breaking out the ammo.
I know Matsu will be getting his order in early, anyways.
Comments
Originally posted by trailmaster308
Thinks someone already beat ya to it in FH.
He won't get past the OS license agreement. Best he can do is make a box that's ready to have OS X installed on it.
Technically though, it's not future Apple hardware, so this isn't necessarily the wrong place for it...
It was always thus, and always thus will be.
- Keating.
Originally posted by trailmaster308
I wish they had some pics of his design ideas. I wonder if he is gonna go for something really cool or just have a generic box with the various parts in there?
Originally posted by Kecksy
...every idiot on Slashdot...
Heck, that's everyone. Slashdot was at one time useful. Now it's down town yuppieville. I gave up on them a while back and have never returned....
I don't need the expansion of a PowerMac. But I want to be able to keep my pretty LCD panel when I upgrade my CPU. Currently, with an all-in-one iMac, Apple forces users to upgrade their CPU and LCD at the same time.
Escher
Andrew