Say a word about Mac clones ... you can use foul language

In continuation of the post from kukalyakin .
In RuNet, a new online store opened on the free WordPress engine. Trades "poppies" computers, adapted for Mac OS X. Details about what is sold, how much it costs and in general who it is, under the cut. The spectacle is not for the faint of heart.

Post purpose: Mac for Mac and nothing else.

UPD: a comment by Stanislav Protasov, senior vice president of Parallels , lead developer of virtual machines for Apple.
Omit legitimacy of such a business. We have no information yet on whether the organizers of this project have any agreements with Apple. It is clear that this project will find its consumer - there will always be people in the world for whom price matters. Many popular products made different companies at one time appeared clones. But the problem with clone projects is that in order to run a business for a year or two, it must have some other idea besides a cheaper product, since the price has never been a criterion for the loyalty of the clone consumer. And if there is a larger amount, the consumer will make a choice in favor of the original - the Apple computer, preferring it to these counterparts. In addition, Apple Hardware + Software is a complete suite, so Hardware from another manufacturer introduces a certain vulnerability to this solution, unlike the original. In general, for Parallels, of course, the emergence of this kind of players, contributing to the spread of the operating system Mac OS, only on hand.

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So, the store "Russian Mac" offers its users 6 models of devices, "full Mac analogs - reliable and affordable computers that can work with the Mac OS X operating system, based on the latest technologies of Intel processors." In general, we have several running configurations " hardware on dual-core and quad-core Intel processors.

The first device is PRO.
Type graphic station. Intel Core2Duo E7400 2.8Ghz processor, "mother" on the Intel P45 chipset (as an option offer another, with DDR3 support), NVIDIA GeForce 9500GT, 4 GB of RAM, 500 GB hard drive. It costs 23 800 rubles
Sellers compare it with here with this iMac for 110 thousand rubles

The second device is Multimedia / Home Theater.
Something like the barebone-system for "smart home". Intel Core2Duo E7400 2.8 GHz processor; 4 GB of RAM; 500 GB hard drive; NVIDIA GeForce 9500GT 512Mb graphics card; 4 x USB; 20-x DVD ± RW drive. "Russian Mac" did not find analogues. It costs 22,600 rubles

The third device is the Mini.

Intel Atom 1.6 GHz processor; 2 GB of RAM; 320 GB hard drive; 8-x DVD ± RW Slim Drive. Cost - 15 800 rubles. "Analog" is like 30 thousand

The fourth device is another iMac. This time Standart.
Intel Core2Duo 2.8 GHz processor; 2 GB of RAM; 500 GB hard drive; 20-x DVD ± RW drive. Vendor specifically emphasizes that this is the “BEST PRICE / QUALITY ratio!”. Yes, if we consider that their handiwork costs 17 with something thousand, and that is 60 thousand rubles.

And then the laptops went. There are two of them. The first is Book.

Here, the “marketers” of the store (if any) took advantage of the old, as the world, ploy. They wrote that this model is discontinued (therefore - fly, the remnants are sweet). What is being sold is the HP Compaq 6720s, which, by the way, is now on the black list of devices that may have battery problems . “In the near future, a more powerful model is preparing for the change (Intel Core2Duo 2.4 GHz / 2Gb / 250 GB HDD / FireWare, WiFi, Bluetooth, Ethernet, screen 15.4”. Estimated cost 35.000 - 40.000 rubles), ”write“ marketers ”, offering to subscribe to the RSS feed (emails come from Google Mail). There is an "old" laptop - 25 thousand, such as an analog - 50 thousand rubles.

It is not surprising that the second laptop is a netbook.
Yes, the MiniBook (10 "screen; Intel Atom 1.6 GHz processor; 1 GB of RAM; 40 GB SSD or 160 GB hard drive; WiFi + Bluetooth) is the ASUS Eee PC. Pleasure costs 18 thousand rubles., Of course, there are no analogues.

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Total: homemade (according to the “cheap and cheerful” principle) website with a feedback form (cforms contact form by delicious: days), reworked to fit the order of the goods; many ambitions (" # . "); gray Apple brand usage pattern. Understanding where these experts came from is not difficult - on the page above, there is a collection of links to hacktosh distributions, blogs on the topic (with the version) and forums.