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Who do you think would win in a fight between THIS guy, and THIS guy. It's no contest.

Perhaps more creative if anything... You obviously didn't take any of your precious time to do a little research and realize that Mac users have been 'modding' since long before the whole 'PC mod' trend/craze started. Look here, here, here, here, and the list could go on. Try googling 'mac case mods' and you'll get plenty of links. Not to mention that slashdot has had (numerous?) stories on Mac case mods before...

2 sizes of floppy drive? Do you mean 3.5 and 5.25? Can you honestly say you use either regularly? According to a previous story on Slashdot...here, many users only use 3.5" floppies as boot disks. But since all Macs can boot off of CDs, external drives, USB keychains, even iPods...I don't see a use for this. The USB keychain should replace your floppy issues. And really...can you ever use a 5.25" floppy anymore?

CD Reader and CD Burner. Well personally I would recommend you just get a Combo drive in a Power Mac, which reads and writes CDs at a very reasonable speed (faster than the Superdrive). Or if you want, get a 2nd faster CD-ROM drive for the 2nd bay. ZIP? Come on now what a dead technology. The combination of a DiskOnKey and a CD-RW should destroy the need for a ZIP. You can get a 128 MB DiskOnKey for ~$90 and of course CD-Rs are basically free-as-in-beer.

And I don't see why you'd need an LCD panel...but no one is stopping you from putting one in.

And the Power Macs have an advantage on your box then, in that they have 4 3.5" bays for 4 HDs (on 2 busses). You couldn't put all those drives in your tower if you've indeed filled all the 5.25" bays with your devices as claimed.

So yes, I can supply all the functionality you need. Sometimes legacy goes away for better technology that does the same thing. Carbureted (sp?) engines are largely gone in support for fuel-injected models. This for the good. Don't go whining because your new Corvette can't use the same Holley carbs you put on your '63 model.

Do you still have to buy an adapter box to plug in an affordable PC monitor?

Heck no. Every Mac that ships has some sort of VGA support. And in the case of the Powerbook and Power Mac, which both support monitor spanning, there is an included DVI-VGA adaptor. You'd need an Adaptor to put an Apple display on a Powerbook...but something tells me a TiBook wouldn't have the "expandability" you'd want for all your "needs" (like 5.25" floppy).

And just because Apple doesn't include one of every port that ever existed, doesn't mean its a bad thing. USB and Firewire are now established so feel free to make "longterm investments." Though granted USB 2.0 support would be nice, but I bet that's coming real soon.

2 cents and then some. Hope this clears some stuff up.

Well for starters there's this

and this

or these

these too

this too along with this

and this

Had enough yet?

Some people already have drilled holes in the side...

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