Thats awsome
Long time reader first time poster... I'd definately buy one, if only to hold me over until I can buy another real mac. My dad switched to windows when apple ran into trouble a few years back, but I ended up getting my first job and spent pretty much all summer earnings on an imac. It still works like a champ (10.1.5) but my brother has been using an old B&W 350 which he somehow managed to break. It won't run in X anymore, and I don't want to touch the machine since its been handed down from about four different people. I'd love to take the monitor and reformatted HD and put it in a little box with a kickass video card and a decent G4, just something that could run Panther and Halo and all the games my bro plays. My computer does fine for what I need it to do, but its at the bottom of the mac gaming food chain. It really hurts to have to play games on my dad's PC or on my Xbox (I only bought one so I could play Halo, and so microsoft would lose money on the hardware.) I really could give a rat's ass about customer service or waranties, I've never called apple tech support once in my twenty years of dealing with their computers. (yes all my life, I learned the alphabet playing this game on the APPLE IIc with a penguin that sang when you pressed the right key.)
Bottom line is, my bro and I would love to buy a new apple computer but thats not going to happen anytime soon cause its gonna take a while to save for one. We've been looking at the emacs, but they aren't very configureable, and we don't need another freaking monitor, Plus the price is a little high. A sub thousand dollar mac clone would be great, I'd love to trick it out as a gaming machine, its within our current budget and I would actually buy more apple software that I wouldn't otherwise get for our outdated computers. Plus, once we did get a new Apple brand computer (970 imac or powerbook I'm wishing for) I could sell it to a PC using friend who I'm sure would realise the foolishness of dealing with windows (oh how he whines when his computer crashes every other hour, and oh how I chuckle when his even whinier excuse is "I know macs are better, but I'm a GAMER")
My situation may be unique, but If I bought one of these, In my estimation, it would only really benefit apple and myself. I hope apple doesn't send its legal goons after this, if they want to do something about it, create a product that would compete, don't use microsoftesque strongarming. Its about time there was another mac on the market that catered to the consumer's tastes, instead of the consumers catering to apple's tastes. Please reserve one of those motherboards for me, hell if apple tries to stop you, maybe we could work something out despite them .
I'll contact ya.... eventually. Good luck with the thing you're doing.
