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Build Your Own PowerPC?

Posted by Cliff on from the why-not? dept.

amokk asks: "Let's assume for a second that somebody would want to take the time and effort to build a Personal Computer but base it on a PowerPC architecture. Besides saying 'Buy a Mac' (I already have one) or 'Buy an IBM server', is there any way of acquirng the individual parts and slapping them together? Why you would want to do this isn't up for debate. Rather, this is one of those 'wouldn't it be neat if...' type of experiments."

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  1. Next Week On Ask Slashdot... by CySurflex · · Score: 5, Funny

    Next Weeek On Ask Slashdot: "Let's assume I want to pump gas into my car through the radiator and mix in diet cherry 7-up. WHY is not up for debate. I just need the schematics and blue prints of how to achieve this, and I need this NOW."

    1. Re:Next Week On Ask Slashdot... by Carmody · · Score: 3, Funny

      This would not be too difficult. As long as you don't want the car to RUN on that mixture, it really is just a question of a nozzle in the radiator that goes to the diet cherry 7-up mixing chamber, and then stores it somewhere for disposal later.

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  2. Re:Build your own computer? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    > I just purchased a new computer, by taking some
    > parts out of my old one, giving them to the
    > service desk at my local computer shop, and
    > telling them how to fill in the blanks

    What is this, an AOL forum? I thought this was Slashdot, where people etch their own fricken motherboards, not drop them off at the local shop to get an upgrade.

  3. Slashdot Recursion by BiOFH · · Score: 5, Funny

    Build a Mac! see Can I build a Mac? see Build a Mac! see Can I build a Mac? see Build a Mac! see Can I build a Mac? see Build a Mac! see Can I build a Mac? see ... ad infinitum...

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  4. Re:The other part of the question... by autocracy · · Score: 3, Funny
    Also, what company would be stupid enough to throw tons of money at building up a brand only to be at Apple's mercy? That takes a lot of faith, and you saw what happened last time someone had faith in Apple not to screw them over...
    I dunno... but I'd certainly say Dell is Microsoft's bitch...
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