Star RussianMac Joins List of Apple Clone Makers
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 19th May 2009 17:15 UTC
Apple If you thought Psystar was the only company making Macintosh "clones", then you are seriously mistaken. There is also German PearC, and the latest addition to the clone family is a Russian company called RussianMac, who debuted several Mac clones this week.
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by godawful on Thu 21st May 2009 19:41 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: ..."
godawful
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2005-06-29

I think they're referring to the internal layout of a mac pro, not the actual components themselves.

with that said, yes, they are amazingly well thought out on the interior, from the easy access to drives to the slide out risers for the ram.. its pretty spiffy

http://www.apple.com/macpro/design.html

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by tupp on Fri 22nd May 2009 21:29 in reply to "RE[4]: ..."
tupp Member since:
2006-11-12

I think they're referring to the internal layout of a mac pro, not the actual components themselves.

I think that you are correct.

So, there is no dispute that the internal components of Macs are no better than those in found in PCs. Let's officially declare this fact, so that we don't have to keep arguing the point.


with that said, yes, they are amazingly well thought out on the interior, from the easy access to drives to the slide out risers for the ram.. its pretty spiffy http://www.apple.com/macpro/design.html

Thanks for the link.

Yes. That Mac Pro case is certainly spiffy -- just as spiffy as all of the many fancy PC cases that have preceded the Mac Pro. However, the Mac Pro provides only half the number of the drive bays available in most PC full towers.

Why did it take Apple so long to offer:
- tool-less component retention?
- slide-in hard drives?
- slide-out/hinge-out motherboard trays (to ease changing of ram, cpu, jumpers, etc.)?

For me, I don't really need a fancy case, nor do I value case "aesthetics." However, I would love to have one of these: http://www.highspeedpc.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Catego...

This "case" would certainly make it easy to swap-out components!

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