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Attack of the Clones

by Tom Conlon on May 20, 2007 at 06:06 PM

Attack of the ClonesAOpen Pandora
Whenever a cool new Adidas sneaker comes out, it's immediately given a fourth stripe by some hack out there and sold under a different brand name. Well, Apple is kind of like the Adidas of the tech-world. But it's not just Apple's phone and music players that get the Payless treatment. The Mac Mini, for example, found a fan in Taiwanese computer maker AOpen, who in 2005 released the Pandora. To its credit, AOpen was up front about its source of inspiration. That said, the Pandora is still a pretty shameless 'tribute' to the Mac Mini. On the outside, the only difference seems to be the power button and the lack of an Apple logo. On the inside, of course, the difference is a choice of Linux or Windows instead of OS X.

Spotted at CNET

Tags: apple, intel, mac, macintosh, mini, osx, pc, universal

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