Same as it ever was. I bought a (Mac-licensed) Power clone (for about a grand less) in early 1997. It worked for 7 years without failure. "Power Computing rele

Same as it ever was. I bought a (Mac-licensed) Power clone (for about a grand less) in early 1997. It worked for 7 years without failure. "Power Computing released upgraded models until 1997 with revenues reaching $400 million a year.... In September [1997], Apple bought the core assets of Power Computing for $100 million in Apple stock and terminated the Mac cloning business." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Computing_Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Computing_Corporation] Over 30 companies had invested in making licensed Mac clones. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_clone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_clone] The iMac I got to replace it had an (intermittently) faulty HD and within a year the display started to fail (for hundreds of users).