A Macintosh clone is a computer running the Mac OS operating system that was not produced by Apple Inc. The earliest Mac clones were based on emulators...
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Mac (computer) (redirect from Macintosh computer)
Mac transitioned from Motorola 68000 series processors to PowerPC. Macintosh clones by other manufacturers were also briefly sold afterwards. The line...
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Mac operating systems (redirect from Apple Macintosh OS)
original Macintosh System Software. The system, rebranded Mac OS in 1997, was pre-installed on every Macintosh until 2002 and offered on Macintosh clones shortly...
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The Macintosh, later rebranded as the Macintosh 128K, is the original Macintosh personal computer from Apple. It is the first successful mass-market all-in-one...
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Power Computing Corporation (category Macintosh clones)
was the first company selected by Apple Inc to create Macintosh-compatible computers ("Mac clones"). Stephen “Steve” Kahng, a computer engineer best known...
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Hackintosh (redirect from Illegal Macintosh cloning)
Intel-based hardware. As early as mid 1988, people have been making Macintosh clones. In 1989 an emulator called A-Max was released for the Amiga that allowed...
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Classic Mac OS (redirect from Macintosh System Software)
in 1996, starting officially with version 7.6, due in part to its Macintosh clone program. That program ended after the release of Mac OS 8 in 1997....
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Power Macintosh, later Power Mac, is a family of personal computers designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer, Inc as the core of the Macintosh brand...
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run a Mac operating system: either create a Macintosh conversion or build a Macintosh clone. Unlike Mac clones that contain little or no original Apple hardware...
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are similar to the "Tsunami" board used in the Power Macintosh 9500 and some Macintosh clones.[citation needed] While the circuit board layout of the...
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Power Macintosh G3 also coincided with the acquisition of Power Computing Corporation, which had been providing telephone sales of Macintosh clones for...
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problems at the time, Exponential starting marketing the device to Apple Macintosh clone makers such as Power Computing and UMAX. In order to diversify into...
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DayStar Digital (category Macintosh clones)
by Apple to "clone" the Macintosh computer. DayStar introduced their FastCache IIci in conjunction with the release of Apple's Macintosh IIci in 1989...
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Motorola StarMax (category Macintosh clones)
The Motorola StarMax was a line of licensed Macintosh clones produced by Motorola Information Systems Group in 1996 and 1997. They used versions of Apple's...
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Modbook (category Macintosh clones)
The Modbook is a brand of a pen-enabled Mac tablet computers first manufactured by Axiotron, Inc. from 2008 to 2010, and then by Modbook Inc. from 2012...
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developers to write software for the operating system. Be courted Macintosh clone vendors to ship BeOS with their hardware, and Power Computing became...
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x86 was partly due to Apple's moves, with Steve Jobs stopping the Macintosh clone market, and Be's mounting debt. BeOS Release 4 had a claimed performance...
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UMAX SuperMac (category Macintosh clones)
The SuperMac was a line of Macintosh clones produced by UMAX Technologies from 1996 to 1998. Their models included the SuperMac S900/S910, J700, C500 and...
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Apple Inc. (section 1980–1990: Success with Macintosh)
allowing Motorola and other companies to build Macintosh clones. Over the next two years, 75 distinct Macintosh clone models were introduced. However, by 1996...
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Outbound Systems (category Macintosh clones)
Boulder, Colorado. Founded by Warren Conner in 1989, the company offered Macintosh clone computer systems in various portable form factors between 1989 and...
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later development releases of BeOS were ported to run on the Macintosh, and Macintosh clone makers, including Power Computing and Motorola, signed deals...
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MacOS (redirect from Apple Macintosh OS X)
14, 2015. Taub, Eric (July 16, 2008). "Apple sues Psystar to block Macintosh clones". The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 20, 2021...
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"Tsunami", was used by various Macintosh clone makers as a reference design and a modified version was used in the non-Macintosh Apple Network Server series...
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Radius Inc. (category Macintosh clones)
undercut the prices of Macintosh-only vendors such as Radius. In March 1995, Radius became the first licensed Macintosh clone vendor, and offered two...
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Electric. In 1996, Motorola released the Motorola StarMax, which was a Macintosh clone that was licensed by Apple and it came with System 7. However, with...
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Psystar Corporation (category Macintosh clones)
declined to hear Psystar's appeal. Macintosh clone IMessage#Unofficial_platforms Spence, Nick (Apr 10, 2009) Is Mac Cloner PearC Flouting Apple's EULA in...
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supply. The 4400 was introduced to the market at a time when several Macintosh clones were available on the market, often at prices lower than Apple's. The...
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UMAX Technologies (category Macintosh clones)
the Yamada and Vaova brand names. UMAX was formerly a maker of Apple Macintosh clones, using the SuperMac brand name outside of Europe. Their models included...
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McIntosh (apple) (redirect from Macintosh (apple))
the United States. Jef Raskin, an employee at Apple Computer, named the Macintosh computer line—later abbreviated to "Mac" in 1999—after the cultivar. The...
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Adobe Photoshop (redirect from Adobe Photoshop CS Macintosh)
The list price of Photoshop 1.0 for Macintosh in 1990 was $895. Photoshop was initially only available on Macintosh. In 1993, Adobe chief architect Seetharaman...
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