Clone wars: When the licensed copies were better than Apple's own Macs<article>
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When is a Mac not a Mac? When it’s a clone. The clone program of the late ’90s brought us Mac-compatible computers from a wide range of companies that legally and with Apple’s blessing ran the Mac OS, but they quite specifically weren’t “Macintosh” computers. Only Apple made
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To most of us, though, that was an esoteric and meaningless distinction. Something that ran the Mac operating system basically was a Mac, and the only crucial difference was that these clones cost much less and were often more powerful than Apple’s equivalents. Indeed, oftentimes they weren’t merely more powerful
relative to their price but actually, objectively faster than anything Apple was making.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2998000/mac-desktop/clone-wars-when-the-licensed-copies-were-better-than-apples-own-macs.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Clone wars: When the licensed copies were better than Apple's own Macs
