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Re:HacBook Elite is a fully-functional Mac running OS X. For... by udp on Monday August 29, 2016 @03:07PM (#12384350)
Ignoring the many, many reasons this is going to be taken down very shortly, the specifications are a joke.

The "HacBook":

    1600x900 display
    "Up to" 8 GB RAM
    Sandy Bridge i5
    "Up to" 1 TB HDD
My factory 2013 MBP, to which this is supposed to be equivalent:

    2800x1800 display
    16 GB RAM
    Sandy Bridge i7
    512 GB SSD
Come on [whoever is behind this]. If you're going to distribute hardware prepare a really nice laptop running Ubuntu or Linux Mint and sell it to geeks with hardware support.
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Re:HacBook Elite is a fully-functional Mac running OS X. For... by 2bitencryption on Monday August 29, 2016 @03:13PM (#12384411)
Looks like this is intended mostly for macOS developers on a budget.

And at ~$350, if you expect it to match your $2500 mbp spec for spec, you're crazy.

I would still never buy one in a million years, though.

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Re:HacBook Elite is a fully-functional Mac running OS X. For... by udp on Monday August 29, 2016 @03:15PM (#12384427)
I wouldn't expect it to match my MBP for that price, but the webpage specifically says it does.

> HacBook Elite has the same hardware specs as a 2013 MacBook Pro, for 1/3 the price.

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Re:HacBook Elite is a fully-functional Mac running OS X. For... by zephyrfalcon on Monday August 29, 2016 @03:23PM (#12384505)
Maybe they are comparing it to the non-retina MacBook Pro, as described here: http://www.geek.com/apple/psa-non-retina-macbook-pro-13-inch... (which does have an i5, regular HDD, and 4GB of memory)
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Re:HacBook Elite is a fully-functional Mac running OS X. For... by adium on Monday August 29, 2016 @03:36PM (#12384603)
The last non-retina Macbook Pro is from 2012 though. http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#MacBook_Pro
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Re:HacBook Elite is a fully-functional Mac running OS X. For... by duaneb on Monday August 29, 2016 @03:17PM (#12384452)
It probably matches one of the lower tiers—note the indefinite article.
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