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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'm sure they do the actual manufacture of the PCBs, and CPUs in extreme dust free, clean environments, but just the assembling of the computer / putting the parts together does not need to be dust free, otherwise all the "whitebox" PCs would not work and there would be no market for those PCs. (Whitebox meaning all the PCs made by small shops from parts, etc, which is currently the biggest PC seller)
"i've got more rhymes than nirvana's got songs"
actually nevermind. i was wrong.
sue me.