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Gutted Apple Tower Powered By Athlon XP 2400+

Posted by pudge on from the yeah-well-you're-just-a-bunch-of-degenerates-anyway dept.

Ill Mitch writes "You have to see what the guys at the [H]ardOCP have done this time. Not only is it incredible to look it, it is a powerhouse as well. This is sure to upset the Mac-addicts. 2.25GHz of AMD Athlon XP power tucked very neatly inside a customized Apple G4 case. They call it the 'Rotten Apple'."

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  1. the audacity of them! by realgone · · Score: 5, Funny
    This is sure to upset the Mac-addicts.

    Ah..... no.

    Hate to be the one to break it to you, but as upsetting events in my life go, this one ranks just below Sandy Duncan replacing Valerie Harper on The Hogan Family.

    Which is to say, not at all.

  2. Oh yeah, that's manly... [snort] by dbrutus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I took one look at the color scheme and immediately thought flamenco dancer (and not the male half of the traditional duo). It doesn't look bad but really, what's with the sexual insecurity bit? After all, traditional beige isn't really a very manly color while silver or other metallics are not normally considered feminine. It strikes me as pretty desperate.

    The only thing these guys want is an easy to open case with integrated handles and small interior lights that go on when you open it up. And with all the case manufacturers out there making cases to the ATX standard the closest they could find was a non-ATX case. What a damning indictment for the whole sector.

  3. They got an empty case, right? by BitGeek · · Score: 4, Troll


    IT sounded like they got an empty case to put this motherboard in, right? They didn't buy a G4 and then downgrade it with that really slow processor, did they?

    Well, if you have a slow processor and a spare empty case, why not put them together. I really don't see what the big deal is.

    If you can't afford the whole computer, sure, why not cobble something together from parts. There's not reason to feel "rotten" just cause you don't have G4 running inside-- hell if you didn't go and tell the whole world, only the people who saw your machine running would know its slow.

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    Yeah, and you guys panned the ipod too: http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/ 1816257
    1. Re:They got an empty case, right? by BitGeek · · Score: 3, Interesting


      While Macs are faster than PCs, I was really joking. I don't wish to seriously debate the issue-- there are people who would rather get paid $100 every week than $1,200 every 60 days... and those people buy PCs and think they are twice as fast. No matter how much I tell them the latter is a better deal, they go "but I get paid 8 times more often!" They confuse frequency with bandwidth.

      But since you said Apple says this is so, could you provide a link to Apple's test results showing AMD's much faster?

      Thanks.

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      Yeah, and you guys panned the ipod too: http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/ 1816257
  4. sound of crackling plastic. by lateral · · Score: 4, Funny
    Er... a 2.25GHz electric barbeque in a big plastic case, does anyone else smell flame grilled plastic?


    L

  5. Re:Airport anyone? by Alan+Partridge · · Score: 3, Informative

    it's not a "Quicksilver" case. The case was introduced with the Yosemite PowerMac G3 in '98 and is known as "El Capitan". The cheapest way to get one would be with a 350Mhz Yosemite G3. The latest Apple towers have a superficially similar but heavily revised case.

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  6. At least make something useful! by bsartist · · Score: 3, Funny

    Man, if you absolutely must trash a perfectly good Mac, at least make something useful out of it.

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  7. Re:someone did this not too long ago... by dbrutus · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually the mac innards were ruggedized in a different case to make it more survivable for some heavy duty traveling use (concert tour? who knows) and the fellow doing this ended up with a useless case on his hands which he donated for the project. No macs were actually harmed in the making of this flamenco dancer case. B-)