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[14] [15] The company was the first Mac conversion manufacturer to create a pen-enabled tablet Mac computer. [16] Notable products include: Modbook – the first true Tablet Mac, [17] this Mac conversion was based on the polycarbonate white MacBook and featured a pen-enabled, but not finger-touch-sensitive screen.
Unlike Mac clones that contain little or no original Apple hardware, a Mac conversion is an aftermarket enclosure kit that requires the core components of a previously purchased, genuine Apple Mac computer, such as the Macintosh ROM or the motherboard, in order to become a functional computer system.
The Modbook is a brand of a pen-enabled Mac tablet computers first manufactured by Axiotron, Inc. from 2008 [1] [2] to 2010, [3] and then by Modbook Inc. from 2012 to present. It is an aftermarket Mac conversion based on certain models of the MacBook and MacBook Pro product lines manufactured by Apple.
(1982) by Universal was the first hit arcade game sold as a conversion kit. [5] [6] After the golden age of arcade video games came to an end circa 1983, the arcade video game industry began recovering circa 1985 with the arrival of software conversion kit systems, such as Sega's Convert-a-Game system, the Atari System 1, and the Nintendo VS.
Apple launched Rosetta in 2006 upon the Mac transition to Intel processors from PowerPC. It was embedded in Mac OS X v10.4.4 "Tiger", the version that was released with the first Intel-based Macs, and allows many PowerPC applications to run on Intel-based Mac computers without modification.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 January 2025. Video game series Tetris Tetris -like games have been created on a large variety of platforms, including TI-83 series graphical calculators. Genre(s) Puzzle Developer(s) "Various" with supervisor for The Tetris Company Publisher(s) Various Creator(s) Alexey Pajitnov Platform(s) Various ...
Power Computing Corporation was founded on November 11, 1993 in Milpitas, California, [2] backed by $5 million from Olivetti and $4 million from Kahng. At the MacWorld Expo in January 1995, just days after receiving notice he had the license to clone Macintosh computers, Kahng enlisted Mac veteran Michael Shapiro to help build the company.
The Developer Transition Kit is the name of two prototype Mac computers made available to software developers by Apple Inc. The first Developer Transition Kit was made available in 2005 prior to the Mac transition to Intel processors to aid in the Mac's transition from PowerPC to an Intel-based x86-64 architecture .