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Whereas Mac clones typically aim to compete directly with Apple's solutions through lower prices, commercial Mac conversions rely on offering features/solutions not available from Apple, and where the need for that particular Mac solution is high enough to justify the combined cost of the full price of the Mac donor computer plus the price of ...
Only UMAX ever obtained a license to ship Mac OS 8 and get Mac OS 8 upgrade disks, which expired in July 1998 (Power Computing also got Mac OS 8 disks by their acquisition by Apple). [ 19 ] All other manufacturers had their Macintosh clone contract terminated by late 1997 and either continued their brands as PC clones or discontinued them ...
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.
Bundled Mac OS Maximum Mac OS Hard disk RAM Expansion Video RAM Equivalent Released/Discontinued LC 520: 25 MHz 68030: 7.1 7.6.1 80–160 MB 4 MB (max 36 MB) LC PDS 512–768 KB Performa 520: June 1993 / February 1994 Macintosh TV: 32 MHz 68030: 160 MB 4 MB (max 8 MB) LC PDS (filled with TV card) 512 KB October 1993 / February 1994 LC 550: 33 ...
The retirement of the Centris name was announced in September 1993, [2] with the 610, 650 and 660AV all being rebranded the following month as Macintosh Quadra machines as part of Apple's effort to reposition their product families to correlate with customer markets instead of price ranges and features.
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.
The Macintosh Plus was the last classic Mac to have an RJ11 port on the front of the unit for the keyboard, as well as the DE-9 connector for the mouse; models released after the Macintosh Plus would use ADB ports. The Mac Plus was the first Apple computer to utilize user-upgradable SIMM memory modules instead of single DIP DRAM chips. Four ...
OWC markets upgrade kits for Apple products. The Data-Doubler installation kit [10] allows customers to add a second 2.5" SATA hard disk drive or solid state drive to the optical drive bay of a Mac mini, MacBook, MacBook Pro or an iMac. [11] The optical drive can then be repurposed as an external drive. OWC designs and manufactures solid state ...