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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!"
Isn't it extremely dangerous to modify the hard drive? I thought they assembled those things in special dust-free environments that would be impossible to duplicate in the average workroom (if Forensic Files is any indication, anyway.)
He's inventive enough to build his own enclosure, and a unique shape. And I bet it runs cool, there's plenty of room for heat to rise away from the MB. But there's just no style. No finishing on the plexi. It could use some paint or brushed metal, or.... something. Anything. Sometimes seeing all of the guts just looks junky. This guy nailed it.
flamebait? That's funny because I'd say I agree. Let me elaborate so I don't get modded as flamebait as well.
-A normal Mac looks far nicer than this thing. It doesn't have any pretty lights.
-It doesn't do anything functionaly impressive (i.e. contain a hot plate to keep your coffee warm like one case mod I saw).
-It doesn't have a cool geek factor like a case that looks like a big Mech warrior.
-It looks awkward because even though the case is a pyramid, everything is still crammed into a rectangular area.
It might be cool if it was painted to actually look like one of the Pyramids. Maybe someone can enlighten me as to why this is such a cool case mod that it's worthy of posting it on slashdot.
this really doesn't look that great to me. not near as nice as the blue ice mod. it's got too many cables, too many different materials - it looks like he sacrificed a lot just for the shape, and then he sacrificed some more to make ti transparent.
in the end, it just looks like a pc mod gone bad, but way more expensive.
Schrodinger's cat is either dead or really pissed off...
BTW, the only reason wired would focus on such a case mod is because it is a G4, while I like the publication, it goes a little overboard when it comes to Apple cheerleading.