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PyraMac Pyramid G4 Case Mod
Factomatic writes "Kent Salas has unveiled his latest creation, the Pyramac G4 pyramid, which took six months to design and build. Salas says the toughest part was figuring out how to get all of those rectangular parts to fit into a pyramid, but he finally managed to cram in the motherboard from a 466 MHz Graphite Power Mac he bought on eBay for $600, a $400 1.4 GHz overclocked G4 upgrade card, 768 MB RAM, a 100 GB hard drive, an ATI 8500 video card and a CD-RW/DVD optical drive. You may remember Salas as the creator of the BlueIce modified Power Mac G4 tower with a front-mounted 5-inch LCD screen (also here). Wired News has an article and eight images of the Pyramac mod, but Salas has included the full set of 51 images on the building page of Pyramac site. I'm sure it won't be long before pyramid PCs show up at mini-itx.com... add a Webcam to the top and John Poindexter's vision of Total Information Awareness can be a reality in your home or office!"
Sort of like fitting a square peg in a round hole - or a triangular hole, ...er yeah.
Interesting...
Maybe someone should mod their Mac into a 1' sphere, with covers for all the ports, so when we get tired of playing games on the mac, we can play soccer with the mac!
So that I can oggle at it for 5 mins. Keep up the good work boys.
Who's got the balls to start hacking up a G5?
It also keeps your knives sharp, and your fruit from rotting!
(subtle reference to early 80's pyramid mysticism crap...)
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus."
After 8 posts. New record?
"A plan fiendishly clever in its intricacies"- Homer Simpson
...anyone sits on his computer.
I'm not really a web designer, I just play one on the Internet.
But how am I supposed to put my coffee mug on top of it?
It needs the eyeball at the top of the pyramid. :)
Steve Jobs was quoted as saying "This is the fastest pyramid on the planet".
http://www.kubuntu.org/
but, mac mods are just way cooler than pc mods.
I write code.
Well that was fast. Bye bye server.....
I was planning on doing this with a PC in the near future, I wonder how closely this resembles my own design.
PS. I'm still waiting for a case shaped like a giant breast with some skin tone colored foam on the outside....
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word to your moms... I came to drop bombs...
is the NWO! Hail to the Illuminati!! Seriously, ever notice how the AOL logo is a pyramid with an eye in the center?
Life is not for the lazy.
What do you think Apple made iSight for?
But there's just no style
Initially, yes. But the cursed iMummy you can buy to go with it is really slick.
Ergonomica Auctorita Illico!
A better question is why someone hasn't just bought a few junk drives to mod and hide the 'active' drives.
That thunderclap your heard is from the collective forhead slap "gee why-didn't-I-think-of-that".
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I call this a quick way to void about a dozen warantees.
-CPM
---You're all I need, When the water runs deep, You're all I need, Now I cry my soul to sleep -- Collective Soul, Needs
How DARE you criticize! You- you- you LOWbrows! IT'S ART! LOVE IT! NOW! Fund it with your tax dollars! GRRRR! Hisss!
--- Ban humanity.
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