Clone wars: When the licensed copies were better than Apple's own Macs

Macworld
Oct 27, 2015, 6:45 am660 pts
When is a Mac not a Mac? When it’s a clone. The clone program of the late ’90s brought us Mac-compatible computers from a wide range of companies that legally and with Apple’s blessing ran the Mac OS, but they quite specifically weren’t “Macintosh” computers. Only Apple made Macs. To most of us, though, that…

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