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ATX Power Supply Adapter for Macs?

Posted by Cliff on from the as-long-as-the-electrons-flow dept.

Swift Guru asks: "I've seen many comments on Slashdot stating that people would love to try out Mac OS X if only they could afford the hardware. Many roll their own Macs, but unfortunately have to rely on proprietary Apple power supplies (or hack together their own), a caveat that hinders Mac geeks from delving into the wide world of case modding (mmm.. watercooling), and prevents PC users from using familiar ATX case hardware. The PPC platform requires its own processors and logic boards, but last I checked computers all used the same kind of electrons. Hardware hacking is supposedly the next killer app, so why isn't there a simple adapter solution to allow current Macs to use ATX power supplies? Or is there?"

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  1. There experience and there's experience by fm6 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Calling it the "experience" is just a pretentious way of saying that Macs are easy to use. (Maybe it also covers paying premium prices for hardware just because the case looks cool. Yawn.) I can't believe it's that hard to duplicate a Mac's ease-of-use features. But even if it is, so what? People who build their own computers are sophisticated enough to live with that. And lots of us would be very happy to see a low-budget way to play with software that only runs on the Mac platform.

  2. Um... by Upright+Joe · · Score: 3, Interesting

    mmm.. watercooling

    Why the hell would you want to watercool a machine that runs so cool it doesn't even require a CPU fan?