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The Mac Made of Lego
Anonymous writes "We've had lots of PC based case mods, but I've hardly hear of any Mac ones! I guess Mac owners like their boxes how they are. Until they break; the BBC are running a story about a Mac owner who converted an old Apple by modding the machine with lego."
The owner is auctioning this off on eBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item =2729209921&category=171
Hey now, mod the poor guy (or gal) up for being politcally correct. LEGO is a trademark for those litte plastic bricks that fit together so well. Just like Kleenex and Rollerblades, facial tissues come from other manufacturers and inline skate are made by many. Too bad Tyco's plastic building blocks don't have the cult following LEGO does. Then again, they suck in comparison. :)
That's all from me, a once proud LEGO brick collector
The Compubrick 160, SE, and 6100.
Freakin cool Macs.
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the strongest word is still the word "free"
Apparently this little mac is currently working as a web server, right there:
http://lego.apple-juice.co.uk/index.html
Let all go visit it and see how the winning bidder reacts when he receives a melted pile of legos.
There are plent of Mac case mods...
http://www.applefritter.com/hacks/index.html
"The self aggrandisement is annoying and pathetic and not needed, her work might actually stand on it's own merit. The self aggrandisement will probably convince most that it's not worth even a look."
a) it's ironic
b) she didn't write it
"So I read that one paper and if you can seperate the childish assemblage of words most consider shocking, what is left while quite thin in substance is not too bad and not as annoying as some of the feminist diatribes."
It's not a paper. It's a lecture. i.e. it was written for students, in this case, first year undergraduate students, most of whom are as indifferent or hostile to the idea of feminism (not to mention feminist philosophy) as many of the correspondents here appear to be. I can confirm that as a lecture intended to command the attention of 250 usually bored and restless undergraduates, and to force them to think a bit more carefully about the subject, it had the desired effect.
For those who had some trouble comprehending its content or purpose, the lecture puts forward and discusses a number of different positions concerning sex and gender. None of them are novel, nor are they meant to be. It's an introduction to the subject, not the last word on it.
Thank you for your kind attention.
Daniele
He was addressing why you hardly ever hear of case mods for Macs. i.e. It's like buying a BMW and then slapping a "wing" on it. You're supporting his point by pointing out that the lego case wouldn't have been created had the PowerBook not been facing the trash heap.
If you disagree then it must be overrated, redundant or trolling.
A mini-itx project and three atx.
I guess it's because those mac users aren't very creative
there are 2 reasons for case mods;
First, to add more drives, fans, motherboards, or what have you to your case(and yes I've seen a multi motherboard PC). Mac users want computers that work reliebly and well, not computers that will take up large amounts of our free time getting it to work right(and I call myself a geek) Playing w/ computers this way can be fun, but a functional computer is better...
Second, to make the computer look better, Have you seen apple cases? They are stylish & functional, and how many PC cases open as easily as the G4 tower or apples laptop line?(No, imacs aren't easy to open, but if your goal is to spend time working on computers[see firs point] they you shouldn't mind)
Don't save your orgasms for Heaven; Heaven knows we need them here.
Just to reinforce...Mac people have been modding their Macs long before the "leet case modders" have been. http://www.applefritter.com/ has the evidence.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
Perhaps the most bizarre mac case I've seen was one that was modified to double as beer tap.
"That's stretching it a bit, isn't it? I'm binary too, I'm on the toilet or I'm not. My car is dirty or it isn't. My binary armpits stink or not... "
I thought I'd posted a reply to this earlier, but evidently something went awry. Anyway, at I have put up a hastily-assembled set of pages about the Lego Mac, including one which says a bit more about this. Unfortunately it doesn't discuss the question of being half on and half off the toilet, which can be a problem (e.g. after having too much to drink) but which shows that being on the toilet, unlike being a piece of Lego, doesn't inherently entail a binary relation with things.
Perhaps you won't find the reasoning very persuasive, but there it is. (The pages also answer some of the other questions that have been asked here and elsewhere.)
On a different matter, I had linked to this Slashdot discussion from the web site running on the Lego Mac (great! I've been Slashdotted), but removed it after seeing some of the more unpleasant and vicious comments (about feminism in general, and my partner in particular). How odd some people must be. OK, I made a computer out of Lego, but in most respects I'm a normal human being, not some festering bundle of spite. Why are you afraid of women, odd people?
Daniele
I beg to differ :) check out www.modyourmac.com. Its nowhere near complete but its a start! And, while I dont tend to work in lego, I have to admit that the powerbook piece was a good design. A non-standard application of a household object in regard to a computing element. We need more things like this! Mod your mac! void your warranty! Earn your Band-Aids! ....but thats just my opinion.
www.modyourmac.com