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Macintosh 2004 Case Mod
Posted by
timothy
on Sat Jan 24, 2004 09:54 PM
from the sincerest-form-of-modding dept.
from the sincerest-form-of-modding dept.
NOTD665 writes "'On January 24 [1984], Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. And you'll see why 1984 won't be like "1984."' This was the pronouncement at the end of Apple's commercial, which TV Guide magazine would later deem the greatest commercial of all time. Aired during the 1983 Super Bowl, the now famous Apple Macintosh '1984' commercial informed the world that the age of modern, home PCs was coming. Get ready. Here comes the Mac... Finally, one fateful day in December, the Mac's slumber was awoken yet again. It was time for the Mac to be reborn." Too bad it doesn't run Mac OS X.
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Sacrilege! (Score:5, Funny)
-MSI KM400 Socket A mATX Motherboard (Model KM4M-L)
-Kingston HyperX PC2700 512MB (2x256)
-Sapphire Radeon 9600 256MB
-Western Digital WD800JB 80GB Hard Drive
-Lite-On LDW-411S 4x DVD-RW Drive
-Sparkle 350W FSP350-60BT Powersupply
-Thermalright AX-7 Heatsink with AOC Aluminum 80mm Fan
-3 (1 red, 1 blue, 1 green) LazerLED's
This guy defiled the Mac case with PC components!
Re:Sacrilege! (Score:5, Funny)
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1984 history books repaced with 2004 editions (Score:5, Funny)
Those who posses a history book from 1984 should immediately contact the Ministry of Information. The following typographical errors have been corrected since then:
- Replace references to IBM as "evil empire" with "valued PowerPC partner".
- Replace references to Microsoft as "valued third party software developer" with "evil empire".
Ministry of Information agents will collect incorrect history book and provide corrected versions. The agent will also collect the book "Unix Haters Handbook" as it contains numerous typos, including the title. A corrected version, "Unix Lovers Handbook", will be provided.
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Re:Sacrilege! (Score:5, Insightful)
It would have been far cooler if he'd fitted a TFT screen instead of his window. Come to think of it, it would have been better all round if he'd got a modern mac, taken it apart and fitted the gubbins inside the old case.
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Re:Sacrilege! (Score:5, Insightful)
(1) It uses the all-in-one computer as just a simple case;
(2) It cuts big ugly holes not just in the back (where it's acceptable) but in the front as well, where it destroys the look;
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(3) It's *NOT A MAC*!!!!!
I mean, okay, I might forgive them if they at least had something like Executor running a MacOS in full-screen mode within their PC hardware, but even that would be pretty big stretch.
Really lame, I wish I hadn't wasted my time reading about it. This is the moral equivalent of taking a 1984 Honda Accord and packing the engine and transmission from a 2004 Kia Rio into it - pointless in all aspects.
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Re:Sacrilege! (Score:5, Insightful)
That's what I expected to see when I began my downward scroll towards the final product.
I don't really think this case mod deserves a
My system looks almost like a G4 with the aluminum case and G4 keyboard. Perhaps I could take some pictures, talk about how I spent 4 hours making a bezel and get slashdotted..
Speaking of which.. 4 hours to make a custom bezel?! My god man. I think a paraplegic could do it faster. I did a plastic one in less than an hour with a dremel and plastic cement. Looked perfect. I used a dremel to cut an aluminum one for the last game system in about 45 minutes. Maybe he was high? No, I was high when I did both of mine. Hmm
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Re:Sacrilege! (Score:4, Funny)
On the plus side, it'll be the first time a Mac ever saw GTA!
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This is SO WRONG (Score:3, Funny)
Re:This is SO WRONG (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:This is SO WRONG (Score:3, Funny)
Just one more reason to be ashamed to be born an Englishman, what would Oliver Cromwell make of modern Britain?
When? (Score:5, Informative)
Sorry, the "1984" ad was aired during the 1984 Super Bowl. Duh.
Re:Jan. 22, 1984 (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:iPod commercial as well? (Score:5, Interesting)
See http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/01/07/19
Welcome to the down side of digital editing and CGI. You can re-write history.
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Kinda sad... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Kinda sad... (Score:5, Interesting)
Add a dual head AGP card to the mix and you can run your own sized screen and get the mac case to be a virtual fish tank or actually use it in the mix, or whatever takes your fancy. I'd be impressed with that, but this is just bleh.
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Re:Kinda sad... (Score:4, Interesting)
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Slashdotted Already (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Slashdotted Already (Score:5, Funny)
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No it ain't slashdotted. (Score:3, Insightful)
A bit perverse, but cool (Score:5, Insightful)
Still, I'd give him more points if A) he'd instead transplanted the guts of an iLamp, an iBook, or a MacCube into it, so it would still be a Mac, and/or B) found an LCD to mount in place of the window.
And to be honest, if I ever get the nerve to eviscerate my Mac SE, I think I'd rather turn it into an aquarium.
Re:A bit perverse, but cool (Score:5, Interesting)
applefritter has the thread about it [applefritter.com] but unfortunately all the pics are now down.
A japanese fellow [nifty.ne.jp] has done a nice tidy conversion too.
Personally, I have no problem just pixelling up the completely fake [danamania.com] ones
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Re:A bit perverse, but cool (Score:4, Insightful)
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Re:A bit perverse, but cool (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:A bit perverse, but cool (Score:3)
You had the FIRST modern home PC?
wow, you'll be worth Billions!
"...PC revived twenty years after it's original conception."
You know, that statement makes exactly zero sense.
I mean. good for you, projects like this are fun.
Re:A bit perverse, but cool (Score:5, Insightful)
I've been thinking about it, and it makes a bit more sense if you forget about the branding and platform identity. What he did was to take the case of the first "modern home PC" (which by his definition happens to be the original Apple Macintosh, and yeah he got the wrong model) and update into a current "modern home PC". It may not be a direct descent, but a WinXP system is one of the heirs of Macintosh.
His mistake was to emphasize the Apple logo in his updated version, which may honor the company that made the first, but misidentifies the theme of his current construction.
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I'll be impressed (Score:5, Interesting)
Original hardware... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Original hardware... (Score:5, Insightful)
I can't bring myself to do it. It boots in 17 seconds (System 1) and runs MS Word v.3 (hanging indents, columns, drop caps, woo!) offa one floppy - documents go on the other. The other system disk I have has Daleks and Kidpix on it. It doesn't crash, feels faster than it should. Dammit, it's still getting used, 19 years later! The desktop gui really hasn't changed all that much. My concern is the longevity of the few remaining 800k floppies I've scrounged.
I can get it networked via LocalTalk with some hijinks and a System 4 disk I have buried somewhere. Rest assured that if I do find webserving software that'll run on it, I won't tell
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Apple's new Superbowl Ad. (Score:5, Funny)
"John Ashcroft. Why 2004 WILL be like _1984_"
Was she really wearing an ipod? (Score:5, Funny)
W
that is very 1984 (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Was she really wearing an ipod? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Was she really wearing an ipod? (Score:4, Informative)
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Three points... (Score:3, Insightful)
2. It's a PC.
3. It looks like crap.
woowoo... (Score:5, Interesting)
Someone in the past modified a Color Classic to have a G3 in it, and maintained the look and feel of the original Classic, complete with color 512x384 display. I think that they made some mods to the video display circuitry so it could do 640x480, but the original tube was used. All of the components fit inside of the case.
If they were dead-set on converting that Mac to a PC platform, they could have use a Mini-ITX motherboard and mounted it in the bottom, like the shuttle PCs. They could have also used an undersized power supply like HP, eMachines, and shuttle PCs used, so that it would also fit nicely. They would have had to find someone to design and build the necessary hardware to run the display that was there, or they could have bought a Fujitsu 8" colour monitor that are commonly used at cash register systems. That would have allowed them to keep the monitor inside.
At least they got practice with a Dremel. Hopefully they'll come up with something a little less rough next time.
I want to do one too (Score:4, Interesting)
I want to annoy my friends (yeah... ok... friend) by making a boot floppy for my Mac Classic that just shows a linux penguin (i put linux on everything i can), or maybe a Mac Logo, for a tribute. How would one go about doing that? I think it would be more of an honor than raping this poor machine and putting an AMD inside
weak (Score:5, Insightful)
It would have been interesting if it had incorporated some kind of technical/artistic/nostalgic trick. For example: using modern mac parts (g4 cube maybe) and fitting a new display in place of the original. Or better yet, figure out how to get the old display working on a new machine. Or neatly fit new connectors (usb, firewire, ethernet) in place of the old, etc. This is just a motherboard in a different box - there is nothing interesting or clever about it.
Re:weak (Score:5, Insightful)
Of course, it's not too late for them to do something like that. The disk drive bay is gone forever, but they could rig up a screen.
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Wait a min! (Score:5, Funny)
UP TIME! (Score:3, Funny)
Bah! (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:The original Macintosh had no SCSI port. (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:The original Macintosh had no SCSI port. (Score:4, Informative)
The SCSI port has the same hardware addresses as the one in the Plus, and Plus ROMS were available as an upgrade for older Macs, so no special drivers were required - any SCSI drive that worked on the Plus would work on these cards.
Many of the memory upgrades of the day for the older Macs included a SCSI ports. A few vendors didn't route the cable out of the box and instead provided an internal drive - the GCC HyperDrive and Levco Prodigy did this.
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Re:The original Macintosh had no SCSI port. (Score:3, Interesting)
1) Floppy drive port. Several vendors sold HDDs that plugged into the Floppy port. All these drives were known to be very s-l-o-w.
2) Hardware modification. I owned a Hyperdrive for my Mac M0001. In a nutshell, a daughter board was attached to the CPU. My Hyperdrive was a 3.5" hard drive, 10 MB capacity. The Hyperdrive upped my RAM to 512k, and a small fan was added to the case to keep it cooler (the fan exhausted thru the
Mirror (Score:5, Informative)
vMac (Score:3, Interesting)
OMG - it has a FAN! (Score:3, Funny)
Shuddering...
Stay tuned! (Score:5, Funny)
Why is this news, and why is it on the front page? Is there no end to these "look! I stuffed a PC system in to a different box" stories?
OrwellPostFacto (Score:3, Informative)
Oh but it does! [wired.com]
But it's a PC! (Score:4, Interesting)
- k