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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!"
I don't know about anyone else but it doesn't impress me in the least bit. The diamond shaped LED's on the front look terrible with the pyramid shape. Also, all it seems is that it was hard to fit the parts into a pyramid shape... so he kept increasing the size of the pyramid... hmmm, no rocket science here folks.
While it is a noble cause of BYOM (building your own Mac), I really don't think it looks that great.
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I think the folks at Wired News need to look up the definition of translucent. Clear as glass seems transparent to me. I like the UV paint, though.
And get something like this?
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It takes the engineers forever to come up with a proper farraday cages to comply with FCC regs on emag emissions; yeah, these designs just throw FCC regs out the window....