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Macintosh 2004 Case Mod 378

Posted by timothy 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)

    by mr.henry ( 618818 ) * on Saturday January 24, 2004 @09:55PM (#8078777) Journal
    -AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton CPU
    -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)

      by bc90021 ( 43730 ) * <bc90021&bc90021,net> on Saturday January 24, 2004 @09:57PM (#8078791) Homepage
      And I suppose you think that running Unix on a Mac is sacrilege too? ;)
      • And I suppose you think that running Unix on a Mac is sacrilege too?

        no way! unix on the mac is the ultimate in fanatical os-isms: unix on risc.

      • 1984 history books repaced with 2004 editions (Score:5, Funny)

        by AHumbleOpinion ( 546848 ) on Sunday January 25, 2004 @04:43AM (#8080213) Homepage
        And I suppose you think that running Unix on a Mac is sacrilege too?

        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.

    • Re:Sacrilege! (Score:5, Insightful)

      by adrianbaugh ( 696007 ) on Saturday January 24, 2004 @10:39PM (#8079023) Homepage Journal
      Not only that, but the finished project looks butt-ugly too.

      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.

      • Re:Sacrilege! (Score:2, Informative)

        by DinosaurNeal ( 744580 )
        He could have at least used a better PSU.

        http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/product_i nf o.php?products_id=957&osCsid=e019391d784c2247745f4 de7d3d73923

        He used rounded cables but his PSU had power connector clutter like no other.

      • Re:Sacrilege! (Score:5, Insightful)

        by lindsayt ( 210755 ) on Sunday January 25, 2004 @01:25AM (#8079615)
        Right on. When I saw the headline on slashdot, I expected somebody had disassembled perhaps an iMac G4 (little round motherboard) and packed it inside the old case, with a small tft screen. Now *that* would be kewl. This, this is just butt-ugly and pointless:

        (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;

        and

        (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.

      • Re:Sacrilege! (Score:5, Insightful)

        by Awptimus Prime ( 695459 ) on Sunday January 25, 2004 @02:14AM (#8079786)
        It would have been far cooler if he'd fitted a TFT screen instead of his window.

        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 /. headline, personally. It doesn't look very good, but that is my opinion.

        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

      • Re:Sacrilege! (Score:3, Interesting)

        by Eil ( 82413 )

        For those wondering how well this modder is taking the verbal slashdot beatings, take a look [slashdot.org].

        Conclusion: not well. Not well at all.

        And to the parent: excellent use of the word "gubbins."

    • Re:Sacrilege! (Score:4, Funny)

      by NanoGator ( 522640 ) on Saturday January 24, 2004 @10:49PM (#8079065) Homepage Journal
      "This guy defiled the Mac case with PC components!"

      On the plus side, it'll be the first time a Mac ever saw GTA!
      • "On the plus side, it'll be the first time a Mac ever saw GTA!"

        Flamebait? *sigh* I really wish light-hearted Mac humor wouldn't be taken so seriously. At least you guys don't get never-ending rehashes of BSOD jokes.

  • This is SO WRONG (Score:3, Funny)

    by Rick Zeman ( 15628 ) on Saturday January 24, 2004 @09:57PM (#8078788)
    This is SO WRONG on SO MANY different levels. Ay corrumba.

  • When? (Score:5, Informative)

    by imnoteddy ( 568836 ) on Saturday January 24, 2004 @09:57PM (#8078790)
    Aired during the 1983 Super Bowl

    Sorry, the "1984" ad was aired during the 1984 Super Bowl. Duh.

    • Re:When? (Score:2, Interesting)

      by FlyingBeagle ( 159844 )
      It was the Super Bowl in 1984, but since the rest of the season was played in 1983, it could be called the 1983 Super Bowl. The simplest solution is the use the full thing -- like next week's would be the 2003-2004 Super Bowl (or Super Bowl XXXVIII).

    • Re:Jan. 22, 1984 (Score:5, Informative)

      by DavidinAla ( 639952 ) on Saturday January 24, 2004 @10:08PM (#8078864)
      The spot aired on Jan. 22, 1984, the date of that year's Super Bowl.

  • Kinda sad... (Score:4, Insightful)

    by dnahelix ( 598670 ) <slashdotispieceofshit@shithome.com> on Saturday January 24, 2004 @09:58PM (#8078795)
    To see a Mac busted up like that.

    • Re:Kinda sad... (Score:5, Interesting)

      by Yorrike ( 322502 ) on Saturday January 24, 2004 @10:14PM (#8078887) Journal
      Yeah. The least he could have done is sourced a small LCD screen and put that in place of the original screen.

      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.

      • Re:Kinda sad... (Score:4, Interesting)

        by calyphus ( 646665 ) on Saturday January 24, 2004 @11:01PM (#8079115) Journal
        Should just have gutted a Cube, swapped the vid (would have to be PCI) and add a 1.4 GHz processor upgrade and it would be a fitting rebuild. But this is a travesty. I'd rather see a fishtank than to have a Mac defiled in this manner.
      • No... the least he could have done would have been to use some damn tie-wraps to try and organize the wires inside. All that work and you leave it a spaghetti mess???
    • I kept looking at the pages as the project moved foward for when he was going to install the small color VGA monitor, but he never did. Lame project. To be cool he needed to incorporate the screen of the Mac, not just use it as a crummy plastic clone case that required an external monitor.

      My SE/30 thumbs it's nose at the whole mess.

  • Slashdotted Already (Score:5, Funny)

    by Atticu5 ( 693001 ) on Saturday January 24, 2004 @09:59PM (#8078799) Homepage Journal
    His webserver must be powered by the original "1984" Macintosh too, since the site is already /.ted!

  • A bit perverse, but cool (Score:5, Insightful)

    by ScottSpeaks! ( 707844 ) * on Saturday January 24, 2004 @09:59PM (#8078803) Homepage Journal
    OK, let's skip all the "Why would he waste all his time converting his Mac into a Windows PC? He needs to get a life!" comments and go straight to the "Wow, that's a cool piece of work!" remarks. It is. Beats my gradual conversion of similar-vintage PCs Limited Turbo XT into a Pentium/150 Linux web server, hands down.

    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.

    • OKIE DOKIE. So far there have been a lot of comments regarding the usage of an LCD screen inside. I was unable to obtain one for the project, and also, I really needed to keep the price as low as possible (all in all, this project ran me about $500). As for the comments about putting mac parts inside, let this be the official declaration by moi, henceforth: The point of the project was to display the real first modern home PC revived twenty years after it's original conception. That's it.

      • Re:A bit perverse, but cool (Score:4, Insightful)

        by Omega996 ( 106762 ) on Saturday January 24, 2004 @10:24PM (#8078936)
        so why did you put PC parts in it again? I'm not making the link here...
      • I don't know why some many people are angry with your work. Sure you could have bought an LCD screen, a G4 and spent an extra $1500 or more. I see your point of view, you found an old mac about to be thrown out and thought it would make a nice case. Then bring it to LAN parties and show off to friends. You did way more work than I would ever be able to do. I think all the naysayers should keep their mouths shut or make their own case mod.
      • "The point of the project was to display the real first modern home PC revived twenty years after it's original conception."

        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)

          by ScottSpeaks! ( 707844 ) * on Sunday January 25, 2004 @08:34AM (#8080617) Homepage Journal
          that statement makes exactly zero sense.

          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.

      • A hack on a budget is still a hack.

        Restoring a piece of 20 year old hardware into a functional unit is certainly more cool than I've pulled off recently. And no, my backup server doesn't really count here.

        I'm sitting here imagining what the mod is going to be in another twenty years...

        "I wanted a [super-LCD|panel|unimaginably cool 3D display technology] but I couldn't find one for under $50. Fortunately, I was able to get the [64|128|258|1024] way mobo to slide in with room to spare!"

        Dammit, the kids

      • Well I think your mod was pretty neat. It's a nifty portable case for a decent LAN party puter. Surely beats the boring "neon lights case with perpsex sides" that you can buy for $100.

        Only thing I would have done different is mounting the DVD on the side with a slot-loading drive. That way the front facing appearance would have been more "natural".

    • Re:A bit perverse, but cool (Score:5, Interesting)

      by danamania ( 540950 ) on Saturday January 24, 2004 @10:31PM (#8078969)
      The best hack I'd seen was on a colour classic, where an LCD was found to just fit its display, a slot loading DVDrom was mounted an inch below the display, with a slot cut out freshly, and shaped to perfectly match the floppy drive slot on a quadra of the day, and a 6500 motherboard with 500MHz G3 installed were all fit inside the case. It was -very- well done.

      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 :)

  • I'll be impressed (Score:5, Interesting)

    by spun ( 1352 ) <loverevolutionary&yahoo,com> on Saturday January 24, 2004 @09:59PM (#8078804) Journal
    When somebody mods a present day Mac into one of those old cases, including color screen. Ought to be easy, if you're willing to sacrifice a powerbook.

  • The screen (Score:2, Interesting)

    by madmad ( 447482 )
    Why not chuck an lcd screen in there and run a Mac emulator too...

  • Original hardware... (Score:4, Funny)

    by i.r.id10t ( 595143 ) on Saturday January 24, 2004 @10:00PM (#8078809)
    A coworker has two of the old original macs sitting on her desk for posterity. I keep trying to get her to convert one to a fish tank :)

    • Re:Original hardware... (Score:2, Interesting)

      by 0racle ( 667029 )
      Only a SE/30, or maybe a SE should be destroyed like that, and then only if they don't work. Older then those and they're starting to become collectors items, and some people will pay well for a working 128 or 512 mac.

      Ya I know, I have a soft spot for compact Mac's.

  • Apple's new Superbowl Ad. (Score:5, Funny)

    by russotto ( 537200 ) on Saturday January 24, 2004 @10:02PM (#8078822) Journal
    This year's Super Bowl, Apple is skipping the product ad and going political. It's going to be a remake of the 1984 ad, only with a different face on the screen. And this time, the babe gets caught by security before smashing the screen. At the end, the head of the security forces pulls off his helmet to reveal:

    "John Ashcroft. Why 2004 WILL be like _1984_"

  • Was she really wearing an ipod? (Score:5, Funny)

    by VValdo ( 10446 ) on Saturday January 24, 2004 @10:02PM (#8078823)
    I tell ya, Jobs was more of a visionary [apple.com] than any of us thought.

    W

  • Three points... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 24, 2004 @10:03PM (#8078833)
    1. It looks like crap.
    2. It's a PC.
    3. It looks like crap.

  • woowoo... (Score:5, Interesting)

    by TWX ( 665546 ) on Saturday January 24, 2004 @10:03PM (#8078834)
    Somehow I'm a little less than impressed. Not necessarily with the workmanship, mind you, but with the concept design and ultimate implementation.

    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)

    by standsolid ( 619377 ) <kenny@NoSpAm.standsolid.com> on Saturday January 24, 2004 @10:04PM (#8078836) Homepage
    I have a mac classic sitting in my garage waiting for me to do something to it.

    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 :)

    • Create the image and save it as a Pict file with the name StartupScreen, with no QT compression, and put it in the System Folder (not a subfolder).

      That won't replace the progress splash, however. For that you need to do a resEdit hack of the System file. It's actually pretty simple. Open the System File in ResEdit, locate the resource pict(s), copy, edit, c 'n p back into the same resource in the System file and save.

  • weak (Score:5, Insightful)

    by seanadams.com ( 463190 ) * on Saturday January 24, 2004 @10:06PM (#8078852) Homepage
    This is a really weak case mod. Step 1: find square box. step 2: stuff a pc in said square box.

    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)

      by twitter ( 104583 ) on Saturday January 24, 2004 @11:22PM (#8079186) Homepage Journal
      Agreed. It would have been better had they crammed a LCD into it. The whole point of the original was that it was easy to use and lug around. Additionally, the addition of the DVD was pointless without a screen and not really much use with one. A network card is all you need to get useful infomration on and off any computer, why screw up a face for a soon to be obsolete media? It would have looked much nicer with a screen. A picture of the sigs on the back of the empty box would hae made the perfect wallpaper for a computer that could stand on it's own again. If the built in screen is too small to be usefull, run an X server and tie into it with another computer that has a reasonable screen.

      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.

  • Wait a min! (Score:5, Funny)

    by Doogie5526 ( 737968 ) on Saturday January 24, 2004 @10:07PM (#8078859) Homepage
    That's a Mac Plus (circa 1986) not the origional Mac (128k). He's 2 years early.

  • UP TIME! (Score:3, Funny)

    by Saeed al-Sahaf ( 665390 ) on Saturday January 24, 2004 @10:11PM (#8078874) Homepage
    For me, the ultimate case mod will always be the server / espresso machine. Got to know what's important, UP TIME!
  • These original mac -> anything mods only count if you do one of two things.

    1, Anything involving still having a display built in. Extra marks for using the original CRT, normal marks for replacing it with another, lose some points for putting an LCD in ... it kinda looks funny.

    2, Make a fishtank. Or some way of dispensing beer.

    Just throwing the shit from a Windows box in it doesn't really count.

    Dave

  • Bah! (Score:5, Interesting)

    by forkazoo ( 138186 ) <wrosecrans AT gmail DOT com> on Saturday January 24, 2004 @10:18PM (#8078902) Homepage
    For the record, I recently got a SCSI ethernet adapter for my Macintosh. Yes, that's Macintosh. No "Plus." Model M0001. And, no, the SCSI wasn't a stock item at that point... :) I haven't quite managed to get it running as a web server. (The original macintosh has no MMU, so don't bother to suggest Linux), but It is still perfectly capable of doing lots of things without being gutted. For shame! And, once I get it running as a server on my DSL line, I fully intend to proudly put on my business cards that I am operating one of the oldest (though, certainly not the oldest) servers on the internet!
    • The original Macintosh had no SCSI port. Hard disks were connected via the RS-232 port, I believe.

      • Re:The original Macintosh had no SCSI port. (Score:5, Informative)

        by One Louder ( 595430 ) on Saturday January 24, 2004 @10:31PM (#8078975)
        A couple of third-party vendors popped up back in those days that managed to retrofit a SCSI port into old pre-Plus Macs using little daughterboards that fit in the ROM sockets. You'd move the ROMS onto the daughterboard. I know this because I was one of those vendors.
      • As I recall, there were two popular types of hard drives for the original Mac:

        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
      • I plainly stated it wasn't a stock item! :) Hell, This M0001 next to me has 1 MB of RAM. I swear to god! The SCSI is a centronics 50 port (rather than a DB25 that would later become standard) that sits vertically on the top-back of the mac. The system boots off of a SCSI 30 MB hard drive. (This was added much later that 1984, IIRC, but the original manuals that I acquired with the system were in a house fire... ::sob:: The hard drive itself, amazingly, was in the fire, too, but it still boots. The sy

    • uCLinux has been ported to some 68K derivatives. See their Ports Page [uclinux.org].

    • The original macintosh has no MMU, so don't bother to suggest Linux

      Anyone know if uClinux runs on mac68k? I know there's a 68k port, but I think it's focused more on ColdFire and other more modern stuff. An original Macintosh running a modern UNIX would be awesome. Or you could try to get A/UX to work on it...

  • Correction (Score:2, Redundant)

    by Fear the Clam ( 230933 )
    So, one can only imagine my disgust when I happened to see one of these glorious creatures sitting on the curb by a neighbor's house...

    The computer shown is actually a Mac Plus, which was first released in January 1986.

  • Mirror (Score:5, Informative)

    by phalse phace ( 454635 ) on Saturday January 24, 2004 @10:26PM (#8078943)
    Since the page seems to be loading slow, I've mirrored it here [onlinehome.us].
  • What *type* of applique do you need in order to get the nice reflection of colored lights?

    White? Silver etched? (I'm looking at the shatteredweb.com [shatteredweb.com] site that they said they got the applique from.)

  • More Apple Mods (Score:2, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Applefritter [applefritter.com] has one that's an original iMac pullled to pieces, and modded into a 21" monitor [applefritter.com].

    Looks a bit odd from some angles, but it's kind of appealing.

  • vMac (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Phroggy ( 441 ) * <slashdot3@NOsPaM.phroggy.com> on Saturday January 24, 2004 @10:51PM (#8079076) Homepage
    If he put an LCD display in, he could make it run vMac [vmac.org]. That'd be neat.

  • Hmm, not trying to put this guy down or anything, but Mac-to-PC total conversions have been done better. Here's a step-by-step of one [beanos.com] from a couple years ago.

    For those who'd like to run a newer Mac in an all-in-one form factor, it's apparently pretty straightforward to drop a cube straight into a Color Classic [mac512.com] (hmmm, two obsolete systems in one!) Alternatively, it'd be a pretty neat project to put together one of these with say the guts of a 12" PowerBook.

  • OMG - it has a FAN! (Score:3, Funny)

    by snStarter ( 212765 ) on Saturday January 24, 2004 @11:38PM (#8079243)
    This is just so wrong. In so many ways. It's like...it's like...taking a Linux system and proudly replacing it with Windows in order to get worms.

    Shuddering...

  • Stay tuned! (Score:5, Funny)

    by gerardrj ( 207690 ) on Saturday January 24, 2004 @11:52PM (#8079298) Journal
    For his next "mod", he'll gut a 1947 Ferrari 125 and replace all the parts with those from a 2004 Buick Regal.

    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?
  • After a clean install of Windows, things were running along smoothly.

    running smoothly, yeah right.

  • OrwellPostFacto (Score:3, Informative)

    by hysterion ( 231229 ) on Sunday January 25, 2004 @12:07AM (#8079333) Homepage
    Too bad it doesn't run OS X.

    Oh but it does! [wired.com]

  • Grr (Score:2, Insightful)

    by DaLiNKz ( 557579 ) *
    You guys are not giving them any credit, which is wrong. They didn't want to mod it into another computer, they used it as a case. I for one think its a very good case, as they intended it. I don't care what they did to the screen, it looked cool. Give them credit, they tried.
  • It's kinda cool (unlike some, I don't belittle the effort to configure the insides &c.), but it's running, not modern Mac OS, not a real OS like GNU/Linux, *BSD or something, but Windows. It's akin to Hagia Sophia (the greatest of Christian churches, used as a mosque for nearly half a millennium). The guys really should slap a free OS on there. Other than that it's pretty sweet.

  • Alternatives (Score:2, Insightful)

    by MoronGames ( 632186 )
    You know, it would have been a lot cooler if you would have jammed the innards of a G4 Cube inside of that old Macintosh. That and a small LCD screen. I mean, he could have at least kept it a Mac that way...

  • But it's a PC! (Score:4, Interesting)

    by PhunkySchtuff ( 208108 ) <kai@automatica.c[ ]au ['om.' in gap]> on Sunday January 25, 2004 @02:52AM (#8079960) Homepage
    What would have been more impressive is if he got, say, the guts of an LCD iMac or eMac, and fitted a small, high-res LCD in place of the original monitor, keeping it a real mac and also keeping it an all-in-one form-factor...
    - k
  • I am sorry but Moding anything hardware/software is more of a PC culture type of thing.

    If I get a penny for every mac user who claims Mac works perfect out of the box, I'd be a kazillionaire right now. Talking about modding mac cases, that's like bringing up innovation with microsoft.

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