No, it's not related to Darling, but it did provoke the question for me of whether it is [legally] possible to 'upgrade' an original Mac to modern components an

No, it's not related to Darling, but it did provoke the question for me of whether it is [legally] possible to 'upgrade' an original Mac to modern components and still have it be considered a Mac. Clearly a hard drive, ram replacement, and video card replacement are acceptable, CPU if it happens to be replaceable, keyboard, mouse, monitor. Really the only thing that might remain is the motherboard. But if you kept that and replaced anything else, shouldn't that could as still being a Mac?