No Clone For Mac

Introduction

Using Acronis True Image 2019 and later you can duplicate all your data and make macOS bootable on your new hard drive via Disk Cloning. You can use this to migrate to a new Mac computer or to clone the system to an external HDD and have a bootable copy of the system.

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Keep in mind the following limitations:

Only an entire disk can be cloned, not selected partitions.
Only entire disk can be selected as a destination.
Fusion Drives are supported as a cloning source and/or destination starting from Acronis True Image 2019 Update 2 (Build 14610)

For more information about Disk Cloning Utility see product documentation.

Solution

To clone your Mac disk follow the steps below:

If you have Parallels Desktop virtual machines running on your Mac, make sure that they are turned off.
Make sure that the source and destination drives are connected to your Mac. If you need to connect another Mac, make sure that it is connected in target disk mode. Refer to product documentation for details.
Open Acronis True Image. On the sidebar, click Disk Cloning
By default, your internal system drive is pre-selected as a cloning source. If you want to change it, click the cloning source icon, and then select the drive that you want to clone.
When you start the cloning operation, the destination drive will be formatted, and all of the data stored on it will be irreversibly erased. Make sure that the disk is empty or does not contain valuable data.
Click Clone to start the cloning operation.
If the destination disk contains data, Acronis True Image will ask for user confirmation to format the target disk. Click Format to proceed

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A Macintosh clone (or an Apple clone) is a personal computer made by a manufacturer other than Apple, using Macintosh ROMs and system software or compatible with them. Thus cloning an Apple computer, the manufacturer engineered the minimal amount of firmware in the computers’ ROM chips.

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1 Macintosh Clones

Macintosh Clones

Clones

These devices would run the same software as Apple’s, with a few exceptions, and they were less expensive as Apple computers as the manufacturer didn’t invest in design, testing, etc. of firmware, just copying it from Apple.

Let’s quote just a few examples: in 1982, Franklin Computer Corp. unveiled the Franklin Ace 1000, the first legal Apple II clone (by 1983, Franklin released an operating Franklin Ace 1200 Apple II compatible for US$2200).. In June 1983, Unitronics showed the Sonic, an Apple II clone personal computer, and the same month, Video Technology introduced the Laser 3000, an Apple II workalike microcomputer.

In 1986, Apple made a deal to sell discounted Macintosh computers to Dynamac for conversion. In 1988, Colby Systems, which had previously produced their Macintosh-compatible laptops on a trade-in basis, began selling them to Apple dealers who would then fit motherboards from their spare stock.

Also in the 1980s, in Brazil, a company called Unitron developed a Macintosh clone with specifications similar to the Mac 512K, and proposed to put it on sale. The Brazilian company claimed to have legitimately reverse-engineered the ROMs and hardware. However Apple claimed the ROMs had been copied. Then, under pressure from the US government and local manufacturers of PC clones the Brazilian Computer and Automation Council did not allow production to proceed. Even in Bulgaria a communist country at that era, a clone of Apple II was marketed under the name of Pravetz 82.

Obviously, Apple sales had greatly suffered from the competition provided by the clone manufacturers, both legal and illegal. Apple eventually licensed some of its systems to other companies. For example, Tiger Electronics, an educational toy manufacturer Tiger produce an inexpensive laptop with educational games and the AppleWorks software suite, the Tiger Learning Computer, also licensed by Apple.

The Apple II computer was frequently cloned, both in the United States and abroad. According to some sources, about 200 different models of Apple II clones were manufactured throughout the world. Most could not be legally imported into the United States; United States Customs might confiscate even a clone purchased in Asia and brought into the country as luggage. Apple sued and sought criminal charges against clone makers in more than a dozen countries, and cooperated with the agency in investigations. For example, in December 1983 raids on three separate importers, customs confiscated about 400 clones of the discontinued Apple II each one selling for $375–500.

Finally, wanting to retain tight control of its product, Apple introduced technical measures and legal actions. Therefore, any competitor attempting to create a Macintosh clone without infringing copyright would have to reverse-engineer the ROMs, which would have been a costly process without certainty of success. In the late 1980ies, several manufacturers created Macintosh clones, including the portable Outbound. In order to do so legally, manufacturers had to obtain official ROMs by purchasing one of Apple’s Macintosh computers, remove the required parts from the donor, and then install those parts in the clone’s case. To facilitate the task, in 1986, Apple made a deal to sell discounted Macintosh computers to Dynamac for conversion. Since 1988, Colby Systems, which had previously produced their Macintosh-compatible laptops on a trade-in basis, sold these laptops to Apple dealers who would then fit motherboards from their spare stock.

Curiously enough, without explicitly stating that they were Apple II clones, many had fruit-related names. An example was the Pineapple, and that a review of the ACT Apricot explained that it was not “yet another ‘fruity’ Apple rip-off”. Apple successfully forced the “Pineapple” to change its name to “Pinecom”.

Apple’s strategy of suppressing clone development was successful. Indeed, only one company, Nutek, managed to produce “semi-Mac-compatible” computers in the early 1990s.

Let’s say that Bell & Howell, an audiovisual equipment manufacturer whose products (particularly film projectors) were ubiquitous in American schools, offered what appeared at first glance to be an Apple II Plus clone in a distinctive black plastic case. However, these were in fact real Apple II Plus units manufactured by Apple for B&H for a brief period of time. Many schools had a few of these Black Apple or Black “Darth Vader” Apples in their labs.

Emulators

As to emulators, they are versions of clones. To give an example, let’s say that the Atari ST could be converted into a Mac by adding the third-party Spectre GCR emulator. That’s the user purchased a set of Mac ROMs which Apple sold as upgrades. The Amiga home computer could be converted into a Mac with similar emulators. According to Wikipedia, there existed a software emulator for x86 platforms running DOS/Windows and Linux called Executor, from ARDI, which reverse engineered the Mac ROM and built a 68000 CPU emulator, enabling Executor to run most of the Macintosh software, from System 5 to System 7.

Computer Chronicles – Mac Clones (1995) [Video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qR_yYc9Fpw

Video uploaded by TheCanadianToast on December 20, 2013

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