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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. Mirror by NETHED · · Score: 5, Informative

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


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

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

    ...anyone sits on his computer.

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  4. Re:Question: by cadillactux · · Score: 5, Informative

    Its is dangerous, but entirely possible. I'e modded a couple hard drives myself, putting a plexiglass cover on them. I havnt had a problem yet, but I expect is not too far in the future.

    The main issue is that dust does not get between the writing pin and the platters. Most of the time, dust particles are larger than the writing pin. In that case, the push just pushes it out of the way.

    But the main reason why hard drives are created in a closed "clean room" enviroment is the sheer quantity that they are made in. If you tried to mod 100,000 hard drives at home, your failure rate would be much more than 50% atleast. These companies need to maintain something around a 10% rate to not lose money (kinda like the recent fiasco of failing hard drives).

    So, yep, you right, it is dangerous, which is why you void your warranty if you do so, but not impossible.

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