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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.
That is not a mac 128k. That mac is NOT 20 years old. This is really weak. putting a PC in it? oh please - this is not hard at all. why does anyone with a digital camera and time on there hands (read: no ingenuity) get time on slashdot.
i personally think what this guy did was pretty cool. i might have put in a lcd, but a lot of us don't have the cash to scrap a new MAC or buy lcd. the job the guy did probably cost around $600 anyway, and for a guy like me, thats a lot.
"The point of the project was to display the real first modern home PC revived twenty years after it's original conception. That's it. "
I'm sorry, but that's not good enough for our sophisticated tastes. Now pipe down, the next flamebait Microsoft story should be here any minute now.
"Derp de derp."
Guys, it looks like ass.
That's a bit of revisionist history... The first "real" laptops (386 and up) that I saw with 640x480 had 10.3 inch screens... then you went up to 12 inch screens for 800x600. Any modern PC is pretty much useless in anything less than 1024x768; except special-use PCs like my PVR/MAME box, which drives my TV at 640x480. It's ugly, but it works well enough. Yes, they make 6-9 inch 640x480 LCDs, but you have to get close, which was the point of my post.
And I'm sorry that putting a PC in his old Mac case is considered "sacrilege" to all you cult worshippers still inside the Reality Distortion Field. "If it ain't a Mac, it's clearly crap!" That's the rallying cry, isn't it? Guess I shouldn't show you this!