See? Have I told you or not? Sooner or later, Apple will have to switch to PowerPC or another "exotic" processor once again or - more likely - to make things right and sell manufacturing & marketing rights for Mac computers to third parties. Obviously, I am talking about Mac compatibles PCs or - as we all know them already - "Mac clones."
Now, the clones are returning to the US in full force, since EFi-X USA is planning to offer a very powerful computer able to run Mac OS X, not just another Core 2 Duo system with a cheap case and some average hardware parts, as it happened with most clones so far.
Just look at these hardware specs of the EFi-X USA Millennium 4(via AppleInsider):
- Core 2 Quad processor overclocked to at least 3.8GHz
- 4GB of memory
- GeForce 8800 GTS video card
- some high-speed disk combination of a 150GB, 10,000RPM boot drive and a 1TB, 7,200RPM secondary drive for data storage
- two DVD rewriters
Even more, faster models based on Xeon hardware, namely the Millennium 8, 16 and 24 (the numbers coming from the two, four, and six quad-core processors, they pack) are coming in about 2 months. Just think about the Millennium 24, with its six 2.13GHz Xeon L7455 chips!
The most interesting part is that EFi-X is not marketing these computers as Mac clones, since they need a small USB module, called "the EFiX," and that one is not coming with the computers mentioned above, so - basically - you'll get a very capable Mac computer... unable to run Mac OS X out of the box! ;)
New Mac Computers… From EFi-X, on December 15, 2008
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