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Mac Case Mods
EyesWideOpen writes "Wired News is running two articles about numerous case mods to Macs. The first article is about Japanese mods that include painted PowerBook lids, a black iMac and a 'Beer Server G3' among others. The other article features mods such as the Philco radio Mac, a Mac writing tablet and an awesome G4 tower that lights up with fluorescent blue neon and has a LCD screen mounted in the front panel that can mirror the desktop or display other visualizations."
The magnet next to the hard drive?
Why do people decorate their house? Get a nice car? Buy clothes for more than utilitarian purposes?
People like to personalize stuff that they are around every day. People who do case mods like to express themselves, they like using the fun modded case, and above all, they enjoy the process of tinkering and carrying out the modifications.
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. -- Carl Sagan
Some people DO decorate their "dorks"... it's called piercings and tattoos.
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. -- Carl Sagan
I understand the basis from which PC case modding arose... people wanted something more than a beige square box with no personality. But Mac cases are already quite attractive. I guess case moding has now reached a hacker/artistic level where people do it just to push the envelope and find new ways to express themselves.
The problem with this idea is that, today, the cost of using service parts would easily exceed the cost of a built system. Geez...I just received a quote for a replacement multiprocessor module for a 2000 500MHz dual-processor G4 that cost almost as much as it would to buy a new dual 867MHz system today.
I'm an Apple Service Tech.
You'd be better off buying the whole working computer from someone. There's plenty of Blue-and White Power Macintosh G3 cases, and maybe more G4s. Caveat emptor.
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Most people don't realize this but Mac users started the fad of case mods. I'm not kidding. Long before there were any companies catering to PC case modders, back when all PCs came in original IBM AT style cases, Mac users were modifying their cases. Not as fancy as these days, but I especially remember the case mods coming out of japan.
Just as PC manufacturers have started emulating the more stylish, and then more colorful Mac cases, so has the PC mod community emulated the Mac mod community.
Nothing wrong with that, just want to head off at the pass any idea that MAc users are copying PC users. Apple also puts out some of the most modifiable cases in the market.
Yeah, and you guys panned the ipod too: http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23