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10/08/2001 Archived Entry: "Build your own Mac Clone"
build your own Mac clone. If you think that you can only do this with Wintel, you'd be wrong.
Start with a used Umax S900 or J700 from eBay. That should cost about $150.
Add a Sonnet Crescendo 400 MHz G4 card for $300, and add another $30 for software that will let it run OS X.
Add more RAM. RAM is cheap these days, except for older machines. Get at least 128 MB to add to whatever came with, which should cost about $100.
Next, a new hard drive. You can get a 40 GB IDE drive for about $75, which will require that you also get a SCSI/IDE bridge card, which goes for around $70.
As long as you're working inside, you might as well get a PCI/USB card, so you can use any USB peripherals you have lying around. That's about $20.
Total cost: under $750, plus tax and shipping.