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Now this is something I can get behind. My main complaint with Apple is that I simply can't build one on my own without some hacks and tricks to get OS X to install, well this is the big middle finger to Steve Jobs and his heartless hardware selling empire. If this works I may actually use OS X for a change, although I really like Vista.

You don't get a feeling of true ownership with a computer prebuilt.

1 posted on 06/23/2008 4:00:16 PM PDT by aft_lizard
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Huh. I’d love to try out a Mac, or an OS. I’ve been a Linux user for months, and I just recently bought a new Vista computer. I like it, but I have enough horsepower to run it. All the flavors of linux and windows, and I’ve never messed with a mac.

This can be cool.


2 posted on 06/23/2008 4:30:41 PM PDT by Big Giant Head (I should change my tagline to "Big Giant penguin on my Head")
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Can’t get to their site.

Wonder if Apple Legal got them shut down.


3 posted on 06/23/2008 5:30:52 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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You don't get a feeling of true ownership with a computer prebuilt.

In terms of "ownership", plugging in a few cables and chips into a premanufactured circuit board isn't much different that buying a fully-assembled system off-the-shelf. If you really want to "own" your computer, then design your own processor and circuit boards, and write your own operating system.

5 posted on 06/24/2008 12:09:21 AM PDT by HAL9000 ("No one made you run for president, girl."- Bill Clinton)
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I doubt the Mac OS includes video drivers for any hardware except their own. And why should they? That alone would discourage piracy.


8 posted on 06/24/2008 10:16:31 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (When hopelessness replaces hope, it opens the door to evil.)
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To: Swordmaker

Found it!


10 posted on 10/09/2008 9:51:09 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Prepare for rain.)
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