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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."
and remember, its LEGO no matter how many! Not "legos" GRR!!
does it run linux?
I've heard of modularity being good, but this is ridiculous.
The owner is auctioning this off on eBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item =2729209921&category=171
tacky 'add-ons' such as case mods.
;)
Enough care and thought goes into the design of macintoshes that things such as non-usb peripherials and case mods are about as desireable as tennis shoes for a goldfish!
We all know the various arguments surrounding the macintosh and when they get what they get for software, compared to the x86 platform, but ones thing is clear
On hardware, with regards to clockspeed as well as esthetically pleaseing cases, apple is second to NONE.
And this is even counting the one button mouse, too.
A case mod on a site that wasn't slashdotted in 10 minutes? Whatever is this world coming to?
"Quoting famous computer scientists out of context is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - K
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.
GEEK (n) A person that owns Apple(tm) products and fixates upon Lego(tm) products. UBERGEEK (n) A GEEK that Attempts to combine products already steeped in Geekiness: Especially a person that renders Lego(tm) JPEGS on an Apple using 3rd party software.
"We've had lots of PC based case mods, but I've hardly hear of any Mac ones!" I guess it's because those mac users aren't very creative, no matter what those turtleneck wearing beatniks tell you.
There are plent of Mac case mods...
http://www.applefritter.com/hacks/index.html
Building a case from LEGO for a working PC / MAC is something I can believe. But bringing back a dead Powerbook solely with LEGO? Somewhere the article must lack an explanation... Otherwise i am going to revive my dead ultraTNT2 gfx card with LEGO! Overclocking with LEGO anybody?
>I guess Mac owners like their boxes how they are.
:)
At this price, its understandable
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.
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.
I'd go on a Vegan diet but the delivery time from Vega is too long. --brownkitty
Fear the power of the K'nexintosh!
...And now I've been picked up on Slashdot. I'm sure I can handle it though: I have a 100MHz 603e PowerPC processor and 32MB of RAM!...
SlashDot Him! He's taunting us!
Sometimes I wish I was a plumber, then I'd know how to deal with other people's shit.
So he made a Lego BOX. I have some very young friends that could do the same. I'd help them out with the little person and the flower...
Seriously, what's the big deal? Why did it take "a long time" to come up with this, and "over a month" to build it?
And how can you use Lego bricks to fix a broken video connector?
SYS 64738 NO CARRIER
"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
A mini-itx project and three atx.
"Lego has great computer-like qualities - it is a binary toy; everything is either connected to something or it's not.
:)
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...
What was his point with that remark?
Ansi's and stupid tricks!
i think this is a good argument that LEGO should not cost money, but you should have to pay someone to pull them apart when you want to use them for another project (it can be quite painful, don't you think ?)
there could be netLEGO, openLEGO......
oh wait....this just in.....LEGO is dead!
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.
The 5300 was the worst PowerBook ever.
The fabled battery fires weren't the real problem with these things - the flaming batteries never actually made it into the hands of customers. However, the problems were endless - screen bezel plastics separating, crappy screen hinges. Poorly designed power adapter port (which, when it broke, necessitated a logic board replacement). No level 2 cache (which, speed-wise, crippled the 603 processor). No built-in ethernet or modem even though the previous models of PowerBook had both... I had a PowerBook 5300 that went through a half dozen warranty repairs. I've read that Apple extended the warranty on the 5300 to avoid class-action lawsuits.
For a while there was also a 5300 trade-in offer, this got a lot of the things out of circulation so Apple wouldn't have to keep losing money fixing them. I got $1000 CAD off a 2000 model PowerBook G3 by sending my PB 5300 back to Apple. They didn't even have to work to qualify for the offer.
"Clean up the air and treat the animals fair" - Captain Beefheart
Perhaps the most bizarre mac case I've seen was one that was modified to double as beer tap.
"Many computer enthusiasts design their own base units, but a complete re-build from a different material is a rarity, underlining typical Mac eccentricity."
Uh, this has been done on the PC mod scene years ago. How is this an example of mac eccentricity?
Oi! Dipshit! If it's all so fucking obvious to you, how comes you can't even tell the difference between her views and other people's views?
This:
"And that is why men and women live out different gender roles; not because it is in their nature to do so, but because something in the society is causing it. In an ideal society, these gender-neutral rational capacities and so on would mean that men and women would"
set out the liberal feminist position. Previously, she had set out the biological determinist position; later, she sets out other positions. She never said that that was what she believed.
Don't be such a smart-arsed twat and think you have all the fucking answers. The greatest minds the human race has produced, from Aristotle to Darwin, have put time and effort into thinking about gender difference and people will continue thinking about this for the rest of all time. It's only straightforward to simpletons.
Save your comments for when you can understand these ideas, have worked out why he called himself Johannes de silentio, and have worked out what he would have to say about your self-confidence.