I bought a couple of clones for my office - don't remember which variety. I recall a series of hardware and software incompatibilities - finally was able to dump them and go back to genuine Apple.
stan On Dec 22, 2007, at 8:46 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The agency I worked at in he eighties had a mix of Macs and Power > Computing clones. The clones were always problematic, and they > eventually ended up on the trash heap. it was Apple's idea to > license the op sys to clones. It didn't work, and they went back to > being exclusive. Looking at the stock price and the market > penetration, I'd say it was a very good choice. > Paul > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > From: Polyhead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:07:06 +0000 >> Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On 22/12/07, Polyhead, apparently very discombobulated, unleashed: >>> >>>> In 2002 I was working with a company called genesi on their then >>>> new >>>> Pegasus board. It was a standard MATX form PPC board with an open >>>> firmware system. During benchmarking, we found that our 500mhz g3 >>>> machine was 30% faster than apples g3 machines, all of them, and >>>> on top >>>> of that, ours sold new for the half the price of a used g3 machine! >>>> Apple boards are of poor design, with poor performing north >>>> bridges and >>>> a questionable dma controller. The pci bus is high in latency, >>>> so high, >>>> you can loose 10% of your performance just by using a pci card >>>> of any >>>> sort in one. >>> >>> That's all very nice but what was the tea like? >>> >>> I don't know anything about benchmarking and boards, I'm a >>> cameraman. >>> All I know is that the Apple stuff seems to work okay, and I can >>> afford >>> it, so I'm a happy (if lunatic) bunny. >> >> I'm the evil lil bun bun :D >> >>>> >>>> I'll also never forgive apple for what they did to the clones, >>>> greedy >>>> bastards. >>> >>> Even during those days, I never would have considered a clone. >>> Maybe an >>> ice cleam clone. >> >> The Power Computing clones were far superior to ANYTHING apple >> ever made. >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Cotty >>> >>> >>> ___/\__ >>> || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche >>> ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com >>> _____________________________ >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly >>> above and follow >> the directions. >> >> >> -- >> Ben 'Polyhead' Smith >> KE7GAL >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >> and follow >> the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
