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November 24th, 2010, 19:01 GMT · By Alex Vochin

Chinese MacBook Pro Clone Actually Runs Mac OS X

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The topic of Chinese knock-offs seems to be without an end (given the huge number of such products making their way onto the market), and the latest addition to the pack is one that delivers a very good resemblance to the original, since the Qingging (aka Dragonfly) company from China released a notebook that not only resembles the MacBook Pro, but also runs Mac OS X.

According to Giz In China, whose editors apparently got to go hands-on with this clone, the device in question bears quite a high level of resemblance to the original device developed by the company from Cupertino, California, one that could actually fool people with less experience in the field of portable computers.

Practically, the design is almost identical, and the same goes for the unibody aluminum construction and charger.

Of course, there are quite a few design elements that differentiate it from the original, such as the display size (14 inches on the clone versus 13.3 inches on the original), the presence of a Windows Key, double trackpad buttons and a VGA out.

Naturally, things are completely different when talking about the clone's hardware configuration, the system being built around a 1.6 Ghz Intel Atom CPU and a maximum of 2 GB of RAM, accompanied by a 500GB HDD, which send this thing flying directly into the netbook segment.

Despite of this rather low-power configuration (that, by the way, also includes a 3G SIM card slot), the Chinese engineers over at Qingging managed to get Mac OS X 10.6 running on the machine, which must have been somewhat of a difficult work, given the differences in terms of hardware (then again, there's no word on the level of stability during use provided by this clone).

One thing's for sure, though, the clone is a lot more affordable than the original, the device selling for around 2900 Yuan ($436) up to 3300 Yuan ($496), depending on the storage option of choice.

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