[Swordmaker]

The Russians are now getting into Mac Clones... PING!

Our courts should have slapped Psystar down much faster when they started ignoring Trademarks, Copyrights, and intellectual property.

Russian Mac Clone Ping!

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[AlaskaErik]

I would think your apple would be red. A hammer and sickle would be a nice touch, seeing that’s where Russia seems to be heading back to.

[DTA]

There is no infringement of intellectual property here - alternate platforms running Mac OS use legitimate software and hardware is different than one built into Apple machines. This is NOT a case of reverse engineering.

Btw. when Apple started to market Macintosh, they had to pay royalty to McIntosh Laboratory to avoid litigation (different spelling but sounds the same.)

The Apple's idea of using the name Macintosh was an attempt to benefit from the McIntosh fame of building highest quality products.

Legal, but not very ethical.

[Star Traveler]

Well..., I’m thinking that Apple is getting into the “chip making business” in order to make some specialized chips on Apple products, so that people are not able to simply install software on non-Apple hardware.

It would be impossible, then, for a company to sell an Apple-clone-type machine, even when using a retail-copy-disk of the operating system.

I think that is coming down the road...

[erman]

any suggestions for a college bound student. software and which type of computer. I heard that some of the macs have a problem with wireless networks. My macbook pro doesn't seem to have as good a reception as my brother in laws Dell. I would never go back to a Wintel machine but I was wondering if the non-aluminum bodies have better reception than the others.

Also, which router besides Airport Express would you use? Thanks for your help... and thanks for all the Apple updates.