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PyraMac Pyramid G4 Case Mod

Posted by michael on from the beautiful-or-just-plain-hideous dept.

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!"

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  1. G4? Who cares. by vasqzr · · Score: 5, Funny


    Who's got the balls to start hacking up a G5?

    1. Re:G4? Who cares. by Jon+Abbott · · Score: 4, Funny

      I was thinking that with the cheese grater-like front and back of the G5 tower, you could put any sort of neon lighting inside and it would look pretty neat... Couple that with an oil-based fog generator, and you would see lots of beams of light coming out of the case! I'm not sure if the fog would affect the system components though.

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  2. That'll be the last time... by sfled · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...anyone sits on his computer.

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    1. Re:That'll be the last time... by Zork+the+Almighty · · Score: 4, Funny

      Better yet, fanatical Mac users can wear it as a hat and receive special telepathic messages from Steve Jobs...

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  3. Heh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    But how am I supposed to put my coffee mug on top of it?

    1. Re:Heh by beckett · · Score: 3, Funny

      use the cd drive. duh!

  4. Missing something by Stonent1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    It needs the eyeball at the top of the pyramid. :)

  5. Jobs quoted by DeadBugs · · Score: 4, Funny

    Steve Jobs was quoted as saying "This is the fastest pyramid on the planet".

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  6. Re:Flame on.... by Ilan+Volow · · Score: 4, Funny

    But there's just no style

    Initially, yes. But the cursed iMummy you can buy to go with it is really slick.

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  7. Re:Question: by hrieke · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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