Apple clones creep back on the streets

SOME NINE years after the Apple clones were officially killed off, pirates in South America have resurrected the trade.

Apparently, the latest thing is a "PowerPC G6 Macintosh", an "Apple G6 Macintosh-Clone Computer" with a 3.8GHz Pentium 4. These come with shedloads of OSx86 compatible hardware, and pre-loaded with something called a "Mac OSX-86 Apple MacOS X Tiger 10.4.3".

The beasts are being made in China and South America, but unlike the real Apple machines, these clones will cost you only $500.

The clones were spotted by some of the OSX86 project members . They seemed to think this one was a fine example.

The site has been up for a while and Apple briefs appear to have missed it - so far. µ