iMac Clones Are Here

By Dan Hinckley

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Over the past year Apple has been fighting in courts around the world to keep Samsung devices out of international markets because they believe they violate Apple’s patents and look to similar to the iPhone and iPad. I’m sure the last thing Apple thought would happen would be that another company would clone a different Apple product. Vizio announced at CES that they have done just that.

IMac Clone Vizio

Vizio will be new to the PC manufacturing market and decided to do so with a bang. They showed off the designs behind what will be their new PCs, Notebooks, and tablet devices. All look similar to Apple Products. Even their Streaming TV device built with Google TV has similarities to Apple TV, except of course for the large remote with a thousand buttons.

VIZIO Stream Player Apple TV

It’s interesting to see that instead of a mouse, Vizio even offers a touchpad that is very similar to Apple’s Magic Trackpad. I’m sure that it doesn’t function nearly as well or have the multiple gesture feature that makes Apple’s products great.

Difference in the Clones

One of the main differences in the Vizio all-in-one PC is that it has it’s USB and other connections in it’s base instead of on the back of the monitor like the iMac. It will also be interesting to see if the displays are anywhere near the quality of Apple’s. The high quality display is what makes the rest of the iMac design stand out.

iMac Clone Pricing

Vizio hasn’t announced specs or pricing details for their new computer line yet but my guess is it will have to be significantly less than an iMac to stand a chance. If it’s the same price why wouldn’t people just go with Apple’s line of computers? Even if they just want to run windows, Boot Camp on a Mac would give them that capability and give them the option to run OS X if they ever decide to.

At a price point around $700 the Vizio line of All-In-One PCs stands a chance in the market. I’m honestly surprised that other PC manufacturers hadn’t taken a similar approach years ago.

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11 Responses so far.

  1. Party Hire Brisbane

    January 16, 2012 at 4:33 am

    All in one systems are becoming extremely popular in the Chinese market due to the space saving form, low price and the must have TV receiver function.i mac clone looks like a Apple. its amaging

  2. riga stag weekend

    February 1, 2012 at 3:03 am

    I know I can use Carbon Copy Clone to achieve this (cloning my Mac book drive onto my new i Mac HDD) but I'm not sure if it would produce any adverse effects.Both drive have Leopard right now but I didn't know if my copies of VMWare Fusion (and thus, Windows XP) would work once cloned on a new drive.Thanks in advance for any help.

  3. Mode1Bravo

    February 5, 2012 at 4:16 pm

    Im a Mac user and I would certainly buy one of these. They look nice. Just hope they perform as good as they look.

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    February 5, 2012 at 9:43 pm

    Is it possible to clone a harddrive from a imac desktop to a ibook laptop?

    • pwdobson

      April 14, 2012 at 6:16 pm

      Yes

  5. Retarded mac fanbois

    June 19, 2012 at 3:14 pm

    Sorry, but if you think this is an iMac clone, then you are blind, a freaking idiot, or just don't have any sense for design.

    Or? An all-in-one pc with a modern look = imac copy??? You iDiot appl fanbois make me sick

  6. document scanning

    July 7, 2012 at 3:16 am

    Somebody on craigslist is selling a recent imac for a great price that they said won't boot after trying to clone a macbook to it. My first reaction is that this is probably just a hard drive issue that I could fix (or replace). Is that the most likely scenario or is it possible that I would be buying a brick?

  7. now media

    July 8, 2012 at 10:28 pm

    I replaced my iMac's 320GB hard drive with a 1.5TB. I now have the 1.5 installed and the original 320 in an external enclosure. How can i copy everything i had back on to the new hard drive to create an identical clone of my old one (except now with more free space)…????

  8. bistro furniture

    July 30, 2012 at 2:44 am

    I've had my macbook for a couple years now and I just bought myself a new iMac.I want to clone my macbooks hard drive to my iMacs, but I don't see any way of opening the iMac for the Hard drive?

  9. Dentist Gurgaon

    March 1, 2013 at 5:30 am

    There is a great difference mentioned by you. Great to read all about that….

  10. SSB Coaching

    March 1, 2013 at 9:47 pm

    I mac is the fantastic technology in modern days. There are lot of mac user which still uses this technology.

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