Mac look alike

[mdovell at comcast.net]

In all due respects to Apple let me say this. 1) The look and flow of apples OS I find to be better than that of Windows. Granted windows has made great strides (remember the Windows 95 = Mac 89 shirts?). 
2) Unfortuatly what Apple has people pay for for the most part is the design. Apple didn't invent the mp3 or the laptop or the smartphone etc. Much of what they have simply looks better 
3) The differences apple did have frankly getting to be less and less. Back in the day it ran on the Motorola 68000 family of processors (as did Atari and Amiga) then it went to Power PC...then it switched to intel chips it even had Power Computing as a clone maker until it was bought out. Their OS switched to a more unix based OS starting ten or so years ago (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Unix_history-simple.en.svg ) Granted it isn't fully open source. 

I've already heard arguments of does the operating system really matter these days? I'd say the basics of most computers is simply getting on the internet and having an office suite. Once you get to the concept of open sourced products it makes it much easier to change things. I'll admit I've ran that whole Mac4lin program and it actually works quite well. I have the same doc anyway and then there's the background. I could easily fool most people into saying it's a Mac. It reminds me about the logic of a luxury car. If you take a entry level car today and take it back in time say 30 years and that probably was luxury. If you modify something for the look and feel (granted as long as you aren't selling it for a profit because that's a source of lawsuits) you can mimic anything you want. 
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