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Or, you know, you could get the actual iMac for $1100.

... Your choice, I guess?]]>Dec 4th 2008 5:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/Dec 4th 2008 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/Dec 4th 2008 6:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/Dec 4th 2008 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/Dec 4th 2008 6:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/
I'm gonna guess that monitors are a bit more expensive over there considering you can get a good 24-inch off Newegg for that price.]]>Dec 4th 2008 6:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/
And its not just a scam in Argentina either.]]>Dec 4th 2008 7:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/Dec 4th 2008 7:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/Dec 4th 2008 9:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/
Flamenco = Spain
OpeniMac = Argentina
You = Fail !!]]>Dec 6th 2008 6:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/Dec 5th 2008 8:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/]]>Dec 5th 2008 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/Dec 5th 2008 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/Dec 4th 2008 5:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/
Talk about identity crisis]]>Dec 4th 2008 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/Dec 4th 2008 7:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/Dec 5th 2008 3:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/Dec 5th 2008 6:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/
Apple Fanboy perspective - "Blah Blah Blah, Jobs, Blah Blah Blah, Psystar = Fail, Blah Blah Blah, Load of shit, Blah Blah Blah, Fuck Vista, Blah Blah Blah, I think Im a Lawyer, Blah, Blah, Blah."

Everyone Else persprective - "Blah Blah Blah, Jobs pees on every product, Blah Blah Blah, Apple = Monopoly, Blah Blah Blah, Knock off computer, Blah Blah Blah, Fuck Apple Fanboys, Blah, Engadget sucks, Blah, OSX Should be compatible on everything, Blah, Blah, Blah" ]]>Dec 4th 2008 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/
:P]]>Dec 4th 2008 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/

]]>Dec 4th 2008 6:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/Dec 4th 2008 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/Dec 4th 2008 7:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/Dec 7th 2008 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/No, the ISS is a space station, USS is a United States (navy) ship. Dunno what U$S is though..]]>Dec 4th 2008 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/Dec 4th 2008 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/Dec 4th 2008 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/Dec 4th 2008 5:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/Dec 4th 2008 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/Dec 4th 2008 6:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/
Plus, with a name like OpeniMacPro, I'm better off buying cats.]]>Dec 4th 2008 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/Dec 4th 2008 6:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/Dec 4th 2008 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/Dec 4th 2008 6:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/
Whether ill-intended or as praise, truer words were never spoken.


Yep, nothing quite like paying an arm and a leg for a shiny white plastic coating over what is essentially an everyday desktop running a poorly implemented version of Linux.]]>Dec 4th 2008 7:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/
And lars, well, it's just like prated games. They work almost perfectly, but most of the times you get no support or multiplayer.]]>Dec 4th 2008 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/OSX is a unix, and it does ship python, gnu, and what have you, but if you're talking kernels, they are quite different.]]>Dec 4th 2008 7:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/]]>Dec 4th 2008 8:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/Dec 4th 2008 6:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/
Maybe his real name is Buenos Aires... hmmm....]]>Dec 4th 2008 6:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/"yes?"
"your wife just died."

How exactly does this "all news is good news" thing work?
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High five!]]>Dec 5th 2008 4:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/
Either way, it is interesting that on their website they say that they ship copies of original (unmodiffied) Leopard bought directly from Apple... would those copies work on a Hackintosh or are they really fooling us with that saying?]]>Dec 5th 2008 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/Dec 4th 2008 6:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/
imac 20": 2000+ us dollars
imac 24": 2900+ us dollars

So, pretty much comparing to the prices of the original imacs, they are relatively "cheap".
But for that same money this mac clones are worth, you can get yourself a computer with far more power in it.

And I believe that they never intended to sell this outside the country.]]>Dec 4th 2008 9:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/Dec 5th 2008 9:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/

(i'd low rank this if i was an Apple fan so go ahead, make my day)]]>Dec 4th 2008 6:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/
(NO I will not placate you and give you a low rank)]]>Dec 5th 2008 7:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/
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