A new Mac clone maker? Uh, sorta
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Dec 12, 2008 at 9:44am
Leveraging an internal adapter that lets many generic PCs run Mac OS X, EFi-X USA now plans to offer customers a solution for creating their own Mac clones through a tactic the company hopes will avoid a legal response from Apple, reports AppleInsider.
Here’s how the company describes the US$1,899 EFI-X: “With EFI-X, the first and only BPU (Boot Processing Unit) you will be able to enter a new computing dimension. It’s a new concept, a new world. And you are welcome to explore it! EFI-X is not for everyone. It is not for who wants to save money, at all. It is for enthusiasts that put expandability and extreme performances before anything else in their computing needs.”
It’s touted as being compatible with Mac OS X 10.5, Windows XP/Vista and Linux. The EFi-X system will reportedly deliver “85-90%” of the performance of a top-end Mac Pro for less than half the price. Buyers can also potentially custom-order systems themselves, notes AppleInsider.
Even faster models based on Xeon hardware, nicknamed the Millennium 8, 16 and 24 for their uses of two, four, and six quad-core processors, are due in the near future. The EFI-X is made in Europe. It’s purportedly EMI and RFI compliant wit powero management functions and an interactive graphical boot selector.
You can view a video demo here.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 10,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
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