Fake Hackintosh MacBook Pro Runs Mac OSX Too?

Hah, that's funny. If you can turn it into a Hackintosh it would certainly be interesting and I could poke fun at all the people who way overpaid to get the same specks in a genuine Mac

If it looks like a duck and clucks like a chicken, is it really a a duck?

Looks like another netbook in sheep's clothing to me.

My MBP has i7 2.66GHz, this crap has Atom, how can you compare them?

If you actually read the article instead of being defensive about wasting money you would have realized that 1) it was mainly about the exterior not the interior and 2) you paid most likely 5 times more, so there is definitely a comparison regardless.

Scammers will profit high with it.

as the price of this is <$500 it is actually more a netbook than laptop

on the other hand, how do you feel about over paying for an i7 dual core with HT

How about getting one of those HP Macbook ripoffs and putting Hackintosh software on there? Then you'd have a good laptop and a crap OS without paying 1K+ for it.

looks like someone goona get sued

ACtually dude, the OS is quite good....really good.... its way more stable the windoze .... more faster ....
and i know coz i hackintoshed an old P4 with onboard graphics and a mere 1 gb ram to run osx leopard just for fun...

guess what ....it kicks ass of windows xp on the same system...no more bsod's..... video is bit choppy....but its the same in windows 7 too......(too bad i had to format everything to install ubuntu)


actuallly all the apple fanboys are gung ho about the OS .... too bad they dont realize (or do) that they are getting ripped off in the hardware dept
.... but yeah....for its price .... u can get a hp mbp lookalike to do its job....

but i wouldnt pay 5 times just for the os...id get linux for the internet instead and use windows for games

i would buy this without hesitation if it was at max 12" since its a netbook with dual core Atom and Ion 2...

Too bad they didn't give it some quirky knockoff name like they did with the hiphone. I've learned my lessons from ebay though: the Chinese on their own can't do anything more complicated than a piece of plastic without having a 50% defective rate.

I'm just surprised anyone would describe a computer with an Intel Atom processor as "impressive".

LOL. noob. Nobody can sue in China. Enforcing IP rights in China is about as effective as having a democratic election there. When government=industry, there is no line to be drawn.

You create, show us, we take, make our own, sell back to you for less, have a good day.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN3041927620070430

Ok, macbooks are more money then your typical same spec PC. But they are designed specifically for the software that is put on them. Cant say that about a PC.. I love my PC but i also love tinkering to make it run better and smooth.. I have a macbook because when i just need something that works... no ifs or buts.. its always there for you .. I dont mind paying the extra $$ to have that.. Sure PC people think they are under powered but Mac OS needs less to function better then windows..

Looks like a nice Ubuntu setup.

While I'm not a fan of all of Apple's crazy legal actions, I would not be surprised or upset if they sued the socks off of whoever made this.

Perhaps they can go the whole hog and make a copy of the old Classic too which would be quite cool. Come to think of it my old Classic in cupboard with its screaming 8Mhz 68000 would probably give the Atom a run for the money LOL.

If it has the original's 8-9 hour batter life, I might even get it.

I once saw a Mercedes emblem stuck on an old Yugo.

Looks like they will get contacted by Apple's legal department for using Apple's logo on the case.We saw the earlier Steve Jobs action figure and Apple put a stop to that.

LOL my old man 70+ years old has a Asus laptop with same cpu , ati 5870 and 2 500gb hd's + blu ray costing $1200 and you have a Apple MBP with nothing for $2500 ????

Who is the fool now ?

Dude this is $466 Atom not $2500 for a mobile i7 Intel cpu. What do you expect.

This just proves Apple can build their $200.00 Mac Book Pro's for decent prices and then still charge $2300.00 for the glory of running Apple OSX bloatware that is not backwards compatible + Apple logo on that same Mac Book Pro.

Sry I used to be a Apple fan back when Apple was tech leader with performance parts that looked like something nice.

IE: The last Apple laptops that was build G4 Powerbooks that knocked my desktop socks off.

So sorry that you are stuck with a 17" PDA i7 2.66ghz that you over payed for just to experience how broken Apple can be.

Apple where is the nice decent Apple's you used to build like bondi blue or the cube or something with style and flair something that says Apple not the current pothead making crack in his bath tub at home in California Current Apple weak hardware you are selling now.

Come on Apple stop being such lame ars* cowards and start building Apple again.

Dude you made a spelling mistake with
"as effective as having a democratic election there."
It should read:
"as effective as having a democratic election here" = USA.

The rest I agree with.

I actually don't want the glowing Apple, but I digress.

The sad thing is that this Macbook Pro clone looks better than the actual Macbook Pro...

An Atom isnt a real laptop -- all this does is prove that only Apple can fit real guts in a computer this size.

Oh never mind. This looks thicker too.

Most of those renegade made in china look-a-likes are worth less than you pay for them. Comparing my Pro to even a name brand notebook is like comparing my new Chevy to a Ugo.

Friend of mine got suckered into paying $999 for one of these.
As soon as I showed him the windows key and the fact it was running Windows with a fake mac skin he was pissed off.
He believed it was a macbook air.

I picked it up, it feels cheap. Lighter than my HP netbook and made from garbage plastic.

A phone call to the police got us no results as they didn't want to do anything about it. So we went to the shop that sold it to him and got his money back after smacking the guy who sold it to him around a bit.

Not the solution I would recommend to anyone but being 6'5" and 270lbs comes in handy when a scammer tries to take your friend's money.

Macs are and always will be overpriced mid-end garbage. The only +side of a mac is that it's a lot easier to use than a PC. Period.

Call me when apple's pc run high-en games well and have resonable prices.

I'm sure apple will get this "copy cats" too - but in china?

If it gets me laid like the Ipad did I'll get one... Ipad excitement is starting to wear off.

You my friend are out of your mind.lol The G4 was slow as hell. AMD and Intel have been smoking those IBM chips for a long time. I had a G4 powerbook and while it ran fine, it ran fine because the OS was optimized for it and not because it was a smoking chip from a processing capacity standpoint. Can you buy a laptop with simular specs for less....sure, can I buy brand x fruit loops in a bag instead of in a box. Yep, taste the same. That is not the point. If you look at the reliability figures, if you look at the industrial engineering, if you look at the customer service, on top of the specs that is where the additional costs are. Some people can justify it, others can. The only other laptop brand out there that is on the level on those other things is the Lenovo Thinkpad. Built like a tank, lasts damn near forever and great support and service. I have used Toshiba, Dell, HP, Compaq (before they where bought), Sony, AST (I used to work for them auditing the laptops), and non of them come close to Thinkpad or MacBook Pro. Period... Spec for Spec Thinkpad and MBP are price very simular with Apple having more options so they can go higher in price (like 512gb SSD for example).

I will go down the line on the issues:

HP - Motherboard failure after motherboard failure. We would even get replacement motherboards in from the manufacturer that where DOA.

Sony - Not a professional laptop - Absolutely loaded with useless media apps that slow the entire system down. Was not to bad when I blew it away and loaded fresh but their customer service leaves allot to be desired.

Compaq - Oh the memory of a screen that would go black on you and the only way to get it back was to hold the corners and twist it. No lie.

Toshiba - Satellite was fairly solid actually. Buttons popped off though.

Dell - Failed DVDRW, Failed MB, Failed Harddrive, Buttons popped out. Customer service was good though and actually gave me a brand new laptop of my choosing so that was cool

AST - Depended on the laptop, one was decent but was a brick and the other failed so much I actually had to stop the production line .

Never had a issue with Thinkpad or my MBP. Not one and I beat the crap out of my systems for work and play. They are both built like tanks and have a motion sensor in them to detect a fall and immediately turn off the harddrive. My dog knocked my Macbook Pro off the couch and jammed my Verizon data card into the laptop destroying the assembly and knocking out all ports on that side of the laptop. Damn thing still worked like a champ. Took it into Apple Store and the ordered a new motherboard and had the laptop back to me by noon the next morning before I had to catch a flight.

Bottom line, you get what you pay for. Spec's don't tell the whole story.