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Macintosh 2004 Case Mod
NOTD665 writes "'On January 24 [1984], Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. And you'll see why 1984 won't be like "1984."' This was the pronouncement at the end of Apple's commercial, which TV Guide magazine would later deem the greatest commercial of all time. Aired during the 1983 Super Bowl, the now famous Apple Macintosh '1984' commercial informed the world that the age of modern, home PCs was coming. Get ready. Here comes the Mac... Finally, one fateful day in December, the Mac's slumber was awoken yet again. It was time for the Mac to be reborn." Too bad it doesn't run Mac OS X.
To see a Mac busted up like that.
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Still, I'd give him more points if A) he'd instead transplanted the guts of an iLamp, an iBook, or a MacCube into it, so it would still be a Mac, and/or B) found an LCD to mount in place of the window.
And to be honest, if I ever get the nerve to eviscerate my Mac SE, I think I'd rather turn it into an aquarium.
1. It looks like crap.
2. It's a PC.
3. It looks like crap.
This is a really weak case mod. Step 1: find square box. step 2: stuff a pc in said square box.
It would have been interesting if it had incorporated some kind of technical/artistic/nostalgic trick. For example: using modern mac parts (g4 cube maybe) and fitting a new display in place of the original. Or better yet, figure out how to get the old display working on a new machine. Or neatly fit new connectors (usb, firewire, ethernet) in place of the old, etc. This is just a motherboard in a different box - there is nothing interesting or clever about it.
What is this constant fad with /.ing? Sure sometimes a site is overloaded but lately I seen constant claims that a site is down while the site loads perfectly fine. Are these people on some kind of hair trigger? If it doesn't load in a pico second it must be down?
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The people who modded this funny should think twice. Insightful is more like it.
The original Macintosh had no SCSI port. Hard disks were connected via the RS-232 port, I believe.
Apple has been putting pc components into Mac cases for years.
Not only that, but the finished project looks butt-ugly too.
It would have been far cooler if he'd fitted a TFT screen instead of his window. Come to think of it, it would have been better all round if he'd got a modern mac, taken it apart and fitted the gubbins inside the old case.
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Acutally every one is right, sorta. the commecial did play in 1983 but on latenight tv, so few people saw it. Apparently this was to qualify for awards. Some people say taht Appel only paid for it to bee shown at during the superbowl though.
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I have a 512ke right here. Have thought about modding it several times over the years, especially when the kids convinced me to buy a fish ;-)
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I can't bring myself to do it. It boots in 17 seconds (System 1) and runs MS Word v.3 (hanging indents, columns, drop caps, woo!) offa one floppy - documents go on the other. The other system disk I have has Daleks and Kidpix on it. It doesn't crash, feels faster than it should. Dammit, it's still getting used, 19 years later! The desktop gui really hasn't changed all that much. My concern is the longevity of the few remaining 800k floppies I've scrounged.
I can get it networked via LocalTalk with some hijinks and a System 4 disk I have buried somewhere. Rest assured that if I do find webserving software that'll run on it, I won't tell
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Right on. When I saw the headline on slashdot, I expected somebody had disassembled perhaps an iMac G4 (little round motherboard) and packed it inside the old case, with a small tft screen. Now *that* would be kewl. This, this is just butt-ugly and pointless:
(1) It uses the all-in-one computer as just a simple case;
(2) It cuts big ugly holes not just in the back (where it's acceptable) but in the front as well, where it destroys the look;
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(3) It's *NOT A MAC*!!!!!
I mean, okay, I might forgive them if they at least had something like Executor running a MacOS in full-screen mode within their PC hardware, but even that would be pretty big stretch.
Really lame, I wish I hadn't wasted my time reading about it. This is the moral equivalent of taking a 1984 Honda Accord and packing the engine and transmission from a 2004 Kia Rio into it - pointless in all aspects.
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You guys are not giving them any credit, which is wrong. They didn't want to mod it into another computer, they used it as a case. I for one think its a very good case, as they intended it. I don't care what they did to the screen, it looked cool. Give them credit, they tried.
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You know, it would have been a lot cooler if you would have jammed the innards of a G4 Cube inside of that old Macintosh. That and a small LCD screen. I mean, he could have at least kept it a Mac that way...
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It would have been far cooler if he'd fitted a TFT screen instead of his window.
/. headline, personally. It doesn't look very good, but that is my opinion.
That's what I expected to see when I began my downward scroll towards the final product.
I don't really think this case mod deserves a
My system looks almost like a G4 with the aluminum case and G4 keyboard. Perhaps I could take some pictures, talk about how I spent 4 hours making a bezel and get slashdotted..
Speaking of which.. 4 hours to make a custom bezel?! My god man. I think a paraplegic could do it faster. I did a plastic one in less than an hour with a dremel and plastic cement. Looked perfect. I used a dremel to cut an aluminum one for the last game system in about 45 minutes. Maybe he was high? No, I was high when I did both of mine. Hmm
"___ is a Unix" doesn't become less true just because some company bought the right to harass vendors who say it.
Unfortunately this is not the case.
You wouldn't expect to take your Ford and say "This is a Chevy" - you'd have to say "this is an automobile".
The equivalent here is "Unix-like OS", or "*nix" for short.
Have you ever noticed how ANY case mode that gets posted here at /. sucks to high heaven?
Like that x-box "mod" where they made it bigger AND uglier?
Where is all the cool shit like the Millenium Falcon mod where the guy took the time to FUCKING LIGHT UP THE HYPERDRIVE! And did it so it looks like the hyperdrive? And cut a hole into the top of the hard drive and put a LED inside the HD bezel.
Or the Aircraft Carrier Mod? Or the god-damned G4 Cube PC, where it still actually LOOKS like a G4, complete with top loading DVD drive?
I mean, if they're going to post an UGLY Mac case mod, they might want to post this one, which is probably the worst case mod I've EVER seen.
Yeesh. I get so hopeful every time I see this kind of thing pop up it completely shuts my brain down to the drivel I've seen before. I need to filter "Case mod" out of stories in the RSS feed I get.
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