The Mac Made of Lego 189
Anonymous writes "We've had lots of PC based case mods, but I've hardly hear of any Mac ones! I guess Mac owners like their boxes how they are. Until they break; the BBC are running a story about a Mac owner who converted an old Apple by modding the machine with lego."
first lego post (Score:5, Funny)
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That's all from me, a once proud LEGO brick collector
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P.C.-ness is horribly repellent.
So, if PC-ness sucks so badly, how does PowerPC-ness stack up?
Re:first lego post (Score:2, Funny)
Like a ton of bricks.
Re:first lego post (Score:2, Funny)
I think it's just the normal kind.
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But... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:But... (Score:2, Funny)
Daniele
Re:But... (Score:2)
The kernel needed can be found here [sourceforge.net]
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Modular (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Modular (Score:1)
Boo! Hiss!
Re:Modular (Score:2, Funny)
auction... (Score:5, Informative)
ahhh it has a little lego man and flowers! (Score:1)
Re:auction... (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:auction... (Score:2)
Mac users generally don't need or want (Score:2, Troll)
Enough care and thought goes into the design of macintoshes that things such as non-usb peripherials and case mods are about as desireable as tennis shoes for a goldfish!
We all know the various arguments surrounding the macintosh and when they get what they get for software, compared to the x86 platform, but ones thing is clear
On hardware, with regards to clockspeed as well as esthetically pleaseing cases, apple is second to NONE.
And this is even counting the one button
Re:Mac users generally don't need or want (Score:5, Funny)
"Once I finally had it built, my girlfriend used it to write her doctoral thesis on feminist metaphysics."
I doubt *anyone* knows just what Mac users want. Least of all Mac users.
Re:Mac users generally don't need or want (Score:4, Funny)
So that's what feminist metaphysics is about!
Re:Mac users generally don't need or want (Score:1)
Did you actually READ the article (God forbid a slashdotter should do that before responding !).
He did it to save a PowerBook with a defective video connector that otherwise would have had to be thrown away.
People like you make us true Apple believers look like religous zealots :-(
Re:Mac users generally don't need or want (Score:3, Informative)
He was addressing why you hardly ever hear of case mods for Macs. i.e. It's like buying a BMW and then slapping a "wing" on it. You're supporting his point by pointing out that the lego case wouldn't have been created had the PowerBook not been facing the trash heap.
Re:Mac users generally don't need or want (Score:2, Interesting)
As for other Mac users modding, just Google it, or check out the original
You know...Kyoto is only about an hour-and-a-half from here by t
BBC case mod news? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:BBC case mod news? (Score:3, Funny)
It's saturday night, I'm sure that most slashdot readers are in bed with their SO's or out partying on the town.
Hello.
Re:BBC case mod news? (Score:2, Funny)
Some of us are just really high and bored.
Re:BBC case mod news? (Score:1)
Why, I had no idea such was the case, Mister SweetAndSourJesus; how bizzaro!
Re:BBC case mod news? (Score:2)
Dude, that link is
see also (Score:5, Informative)
Freakin cool Macs.
Mac fans were modders before the PC modders... (Score:4, Informative)
Let's Melt These Legos... (Score:5, Informative)
http://lego.apple-juice.co.uk/index.html [apple-juice.co.uk]
Let all go visit it and see how the winning bidder [ebay.com] reacts when he receives a melted pile of legos.
but... (Score:2)
OMG!!!! (Score:5, Funny)
SlashDot Him! He's taunting us!
Re:Let's Melt These Legos... (Score:1)
that's "LEGO bricks" you fucking idiot
Re:Let's Melt These Legos... (Score:1)
It's a fine line between stupid and clever.
Re:Let's Melt These Legos... (Score:1)
Where did you find this out?
Re:Let's Melt These Legos... (Score:2, Funny)
Oxford English Dictionary 2005 entry (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Oxford English Dictionary 2005 entry (Score:1)
The door resists!
Creative (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Creative (Score:2, Informative)
there are 2 reasons for case mods;
First, to add more drives, fans, motherboards, or what have you to your case(and yes I've seen a multi motherboard PC). Mac users want computers that work reliebly and well, not computers that will take up large amounts of our free time getting it to work right(and I call myself a geek) Playing w/ computers this way can be fun, but a functional computer is better...
Second, to make the computer look better, Ha
His girlfriend's site... (Score:1, Offtopic)
"A surprising number of people have asked about the doctoral thesis my partner wrote on this machine. Just to clarify, it was written using it, not about it (i.e. it was about feminist philosophy, and not what nerds do in their spare time)."
Her site [yasmine.org.uk]is VERY interesting.
Re:His girlfriend's site... (Score:1, Offtopic)
Too bad, a whole thesis about a single case mod would be quite an achievement. Instead we get this:
About half of you have vaginas, and about half of you don't. So what kind of difference is that? And about half of you will be called Ms or Miss or Mrs, and about half of you won't. And so what kind of difference is that? And what kind of difference is there between
Re:His girlfriend's site... (Score:2, Insightful)
The trick in appreciating works such as this in understanding what subject they claim to be in. This lady, who, incidentally, seems to have done sterling work on herself in reducing the difference between men and women, at least in terms of her intro pic [yasmine.org.uk][1], is actually working on a PhD dissertation on feminist metaphysics.
Now, do you what that means? I don't. A google search returned some might find interesting [24.86.132.253], but for mere mortal CS maj
Re:His girlfriend's site... (Score:2)
Golly, I'm a troll? Amusing.
Re:His girlfriend's site... (Score:3, Insightful)
This:
"And that is why men and women live out different gender roles; not because it is in their nature to do so, but because something in the society is causing it. In an ideal society, these gender-neutral rational capacities and so on would mean that men and women would"
set out the liberal feminist position. Previously, she had set out the biological determinist
Re:His girlfriend's site... (Score:1)
Look, of course gender differences can be an interesting field of study, but that's when it's studied. You know, research?
She never said that that was what she believed.
You clearly misunderstood what I wrote. It would have been much more interesting if she had taken a postion.
Save your comments for when you can understand these ideas, have worked out why he called himself Johannes de silentio, and have worked out what he would have to say about your self-confidence.
What a
Re:His girlfriend's site... (Score:2)
As for the rest of your reply: did you even read the end of her lecture? She finished by saying "I haven't done much more here than give you a potted account of four main positions on the question of sex and gender. They all contain
Re:His girlfriend's site... (Score:1)
Obviously I didn't set my threshold high enough
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I think it is next to impossible to come up with two subjects with less common ground...
And anyway, by sticking to Lego and computers, nerds at least get something out of their spare time. In contrast, non-nerds who try to figure out female philosophy are simply wasti
Re:His girlfriend's site... (Score:2, Interesting)
So I read that one paper and if you can seperate the childish assemblage of words most consider shocking, what is left while quite thin in substance is not too bad and not as annoying as some of the feminist diatribes.
Re:His girlfriend's site... (Score:4, Informative)
a) it's ironic
b) she didn't write it
"So I read that one paper and if you can seperate the childish assemblage of words most consider shocking, what is left while quite thin in substance is not too bad and not as annoying as some of the feminist diatribes."
It's not a paper. It's a lecture. i.e. it was written for students, in this case, first year undergraduate students, most of whom are as indifferent or hostile to the idea of feminism (not to mention feminist philosophy) as many of the correspondents here appear to be. I can confirm that as a lecture intended to command the attention of 250 usually bored and restless undergraduates, and to force them to think a bit more carefully about the subject, it had the desired effect.
For those who had some trouble comprehending its content or purpose, the lecture puts forward and discusses a number of different positions concerning sex and gender. None of them are novel, nor are they meant to be. It's an introduction to the subject, not the last word on it.
Thank you for your kind attention.
Daniele
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I would not have thought that
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Probably if anything people are more hostile to feminism now than they were a couple of decades ago, or at least indifferent, as they sink further into depolitical apathy.
By the way, it's just been pointed out to me that the text of the lecture on the website ended abruptly in mid-sentence, about one third of the way in. No wonder some people found it unsatisfactory. Very bad, that was my fau
Re:His girlfriend's site... (Score:1)
You have been well and truly trolled.
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Many women from birth are hammered into the barbie box and some even believe this is normal and proper.
I don't particularly care for self a
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I'm holding out for a computer IN one lego. (Score:1)
Gobs of Mac Mods (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.applefritter.com/hacks/index.html [applefritter.com]
Brought back from the dead with LEGO? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Laptop (Score:1)
yeah yeah (Score:2, Funny)
At this price, its understandable
LEGO? Hah! (Score:5, Funny)
...the twins, both six years old...- well, duh (Score:1, Insightful)
I've got just one question... (Score:1)
with the notebook's case? I think it is great
that he saved a computer from being dumped, and
someone will get some use out of it, but since it
now resides in a Lego case, he did SOMETHING with
the original case... And no, this is not flamebait,
I really want to know! The old case is somewhere.
The whoop-de-do-o-meter is bottoming out!! (Score:4, Insightful)
Seriously, what's the big deal? Why did it take "a long time" to come up with this, and "over a month" to build it?
And how can you use Lego bricks to fix a broken video connector?
Re:The whoop-de-do-o-meter is bottoming out!! (Score:2, Redundant)
However, the external Apple video connector used to connect to a CRT/LCD monitor is still working.
Re:The whoop-de-do-o-meter is bottoming out!! (Score:1)
Four more lego cases... (Score:5, Informative)
lego bricks binary? (Score:4, Funny)
That's stretching it a bit, isn't it? I'm binary too, I'm on the toilet or I'm not. My car is dirty or it isn't. My binary armpits stink or not...
What was his point with that remark?
Re:lego bricks binary? (Score:1, Informative)
I thought I'd posted a reply to this earlier, but evidently something went awry. Anyway, at I have put up a hastily-assembled set of pages about the Lego Mac, including one which says a bit more about this. Unfortunately it doesn't discuss the question of being half on and half off the toilet, which can be a problem (e.g. after having too much to drink) but w
Re:lego bricks binary? (Score:2)
My old roommate was a math major. Awesome at just about everything in math except for statistics. This guy could do things that I couldn't even comprehend -- except for statistics.
Me: Hey, Eric, what are the odds that I'll pull a ten of clubs out of this deck of cards?
E: There are two possibilites. Either it will happen, or it won't. Therefore, 50/50.
Me: Hey, Eric, what are the odd
freeLEGO project (Score:2, Funny)
there could be netLEGO, openLEGO......
oh wait....this just in.....LEGO is dead!
Wonderful... now where's the comercial application (Score:2)
Lego building blocks actually have a level of modularability that I can see being of great benifit to case design. If you need extra drive bays, just buy more building blocks. Need removable storage, just do it in building blocks.
While I wouldn't nessicarly trust Lego blocks to create anything industrual, little memories of taking m
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The PowerBook 5300 (guts of LEGOmac) was a POS (Score:2, Interesting)
The 5300 was the worst PowerBook ever.
The fabled battery fires weren't the real problem with these things - the flaming batteries never actually made it into the hands of customers. However, the problems were endless - screen bezel plastics separating, crappy screen hinges. Poorly designed power adapter port (which, when it broke, necessitated a logic board replacement). No level 2 cache (which, speed-wise, crippled the 603 processor). No built-in ethernet or modem even though the previous models of PowerB
Re:The PowerBook 5300 (guts of LEGOmac) was a POS (Score:1)
The thing barely worked. The internal bracing was brittle, so it cracked, leaving the thing feeling not solid at all. The eject buttons for the PCMICA slots were on a tiny circuit board, perpendicular to the mobo. It was secured by only the leads that soldered it to the mobo. Broke off pretty quickly.
Not to mention that the scr
Ummm... (Score:2, Informative)
Perhaps the most bizarre mac case I've seen was one that was modified to double as beer tap.
Eccentricity? (Score:2, Insightful)
Uh, this has been done on the PC mod scene years ago. How is this an example of mac eccentricity?
IT'S RUNNING A WEB SERVER! (Score:1, Redundant)
sigh. (Score:2)
I can't even decide what to say about this.
You know, I just cut up a mac IIci motherboard which was working perfectly because I am putting a mini-itx system in the case. I wonder if this guy is going to come for my blood now :/
Gameboy Advance SP Feminine Hygiene Case (Score:1, Funny)
hardly anyone mods macs? (Score:1, Informative)
www.modyourmac.com
OH No! (Score:1)
Why Apple case mods are tabu! (Score:1)
Re:Lego meltdown (Score:1, Insightful)
That's why your post got modded down. Because it wasn't funny, and the way it wasn't funny was stupid.
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