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Mac Clones History: A Tale of Poor Margins and Bad Timing (tedium.co)
WillAdams 1 hours ago [-]
EDIT: Just barely mentioned is Axiotron's ModBook --- while not a clone per se (a Mac Laptop was disassembled, keyboard removed, and screen either replaced or reinstalled w/ a digitizer layer), it was a device marketed to folks whom Apple did not have a product for, and until the Apple Pencil, was the best Apple device in between the Newton MessagePad or a Wacom Cintiq for stylus usage.
gs17 11 minutes ago [-]
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_conversion

Wow, I thought I had been a big Mac, er, addict as a kid and somehow I never heard of these except maybe the Modbook.

robterrell 50 minutes ago [-]
ModBook is mentioned in the article. But Outbound (another deconstructed Mac) is not.
WillAdams 38 minutes ago [-]
Obviously should have searched --- still think it would have merited deeper discussion.
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