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Re:HacBook Elite is a fully-functional Mac running OS X. For... by stephenr on Monday August 29, 2016 @02:44PM (#12384159)
Yes. Psystar tried this shit 8 years ago, and lasted all of 18 months: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psystar_Corporation

Edit: did some digging on what they're actually aiming to sell.

Also, regardless of their copyright/ip infractions against Apple, their marketing staff are taking pretty decent liberties:

> Looks like a Mac. Feels like a Mac.

From the images shown, it's a HP EliteBook 14". So, it's vaguely silver coloured.

From the FAQ:

> It's a like-new refurbished HP EliteBook

Given that, and matching the specs against what I can find online, it appears to be an 8460p, which from what I can tell, is at least 4 years old.

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Re:HacBook Elite is a fully-functional Mac running OS X. For... by oofabz on Monday August 29, 2016 @03:09PM (#12384368)
Power Computing did it legally 20 years ago, licensing Mac OS, and Apple shut them down too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Computing_Corporation

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Re:HacBook Elite is a fully-functional Mac running OS X. For... by masklinn on Monday August 29, 2016 @03:16PM (#12384443)
That could hardly be more different than TFA and Psystar though, it was the official clone program which Jobs terminated, and Apple did not PCC down in the Psystar sense of legally killing them, it bought them out.
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