The hero of this story is https://lowendmac.com/ https://lowendmac.com/ I used to read it weekly, not certain when I stopped, but it exists in my mental list of

The hero of this story is https://lowendmac.com/ https://lowendmac.com/ I used to read it weekly, not certain when I stopped, but it exists in my mental list of highly esteemed websites. As an offering of a missed strange Mac not mentioned by other comments, the OWC ModBook. Starting in 2007 (maybe '08) OWC would make your MacBook into a tablet. This may stretch the definition of "Strange Mac" since it wasn't an Apple product or a direct clone, but built in anticipation of the iPad the ModBooks digitizer was "fully compatible with Apple Inkwell®, a Mac OS X Leopard feature that provides system-level handwriting and gesture recognition instantly to all Mac applications." https://web.archive.org/web/20080513175426/http://eshop.macsales.com/Customized_Pages/modbook/modbook_info_p1.html https://web.archive.org/web/20080513175426/http://eshop.macs...