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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!"
As the site seemed to be slow w/ just subscribers...
Mirror of the images hereNot all of them are there yet, but the skeleton is there. Refresh often.
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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!
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."
...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?
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.)
It's quite scary: I could immediatly tell the minute the story went live for everyone... the download rate dropped from >50KBps to below 3...
It needs the eyeball at the top of the pyramid. :)
Steve Jobs was quoted as saying "This is the fastest pyramid on the planet".
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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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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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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.
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.
What do you think Apple made iSight for?
Okay, If you want to store data on the drive, it's a REALLY bad idea. Incredibly bad, in fact. On current HDDs the fly height of the head is incredibly small. Check out an excellent primer on the subject from Storage Review at http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/op/ heads/opHeight.html. The graphic's at the bottom's the important bit. I work with the guys that used to design these things. Unless you have access to a clean room (and even then it's iffy) this is a Bad Idea.
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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.
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.
I call this a quick way to void about a dozen warantees.
-CPM
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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....
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