Yet Another PC-Mac Case Mod

JayPee writes "Fortunately, this mod doesn't involve destroying a brand new G5 for its shell. (And yes, I know the G5 was a "hoax"). Instead, the modder used an old Macintosh SE case for his gaming computer. While I'm sad that he wasn't able to use the old black and white display in conjunction with the LCD, I'm still amazed that he was able to deal with the heat issues that I'm assuming would pop up by stuffing a higher end PC and video card in a Mac SE case." This mod is technically impressive, and looks great.

Comments

risky HD placement?

[inio]

I would have second thoughts before strapping the HDD to the side of the PSU...

Re:risky HD placement?

[Anonymous Coward]

Why? Your psu isn't going to bother it, honestly nobody seems to know anything about magnetic fields OR their computer components anymore. Have you ever taken apart a hard drive? There are EXTREMELY powerful magnets in there. It's true that you can't leave a floppy next to a magnet, it's not true for hard drives.

Re:risky HD placement?

[irokitt]

Back in 1997 Hewlett Packard actually sold units where the hard drive was nested right on top of the PSU. I'm still having nightmares involving hard drives on their death throes.

From the looks of it

[freaksta]

It would appear he is running WindowsXP.

Re:Akihabara

[colinleroy]

The screen looks photoshopped in the upper edges, and just putting some USB keyboard in front of it isn't enough. I'd had been impressed if the mod was detailed, but I, too, can claim to put a bi-g5 in my powerbook 100, with just a photo starring said powerbook powered off...

Re:What is this,

[tiktokfx]

Actually, the SE was only 8 MHz.

Re:Akihabara

[ChuyMatt]

seeing as the site is called vHacks (Virtual hacks) i would think it would be obvious...

Nice peripherals, sort of

[Stargoose]

The Apple monitor and keyboard sort of make sense, if you reason that he wants to make a Windows box look like a Mac, but I kind of think the theme gets muddled: PC in old Mac case, with new Apple monitor and two-year-old Apple keyboard.

On the other hand, using a PC monitor and keyboard probably wouldn't have looked any nicer. Anyone know how PC hardware handles the special keys (command, option) on Apple keyboards?

Re:Nice peripherals, sort of

[prockcore]

Anyone know how PC hardware handles the special keys (command, option) on Apple keyboards?

I have an Apple Pro Keyboard hooked up to my PC. Option is Alt, Command is the Windows Key.

Re:Nice peripherals, sort of

[dbirchall]

My wife took her Pro Keyboard to work, since she couldn't stand the craptastic one on the PC there. Works fine. I suspect the volume up, down, and off keys, eject key and F13-F16 on my G5's keyboard would be confusing to a PC, though.

Oh, and since prockcore didn't spell it out, the "Command" key is the one with the apple and the cloverleaf on it, if anyone's confused.

Re:Nice peripherals, sort of

[prockcore]

I suspect the volume up, down, and off keys, eject key and F13-F16 on my G5's keyboard would be confusing to a PC, though.

Actually, volume up,down,off and eject all work under Linux. I think volume up and down work in Windows, but eject doesn't.

And F13-F15 map directly to Print Screen, Scroll Lock, and Pause.

It does take some getting used to though, because the "windows" key and alt are swapped.

Re:G5 was a "hoax"?

[Nick of NSTime]

The G5 wasn't a hoax. The submitter was referring to the recent brouhaha about a guy who stripped the internals out of his G5 and replaced them with not-so-great PC components. It turned out to be a hoax.

Re:What is this,

[redJag]

by the way, the term for "reverse rice rocket" is sleeper. Lot's of people do it (cars that are wicked fast but don't look it).

Re:What is this,

[CuriHP]

This is an SE/30, the successor to the original SE. It had completely different innards.

Re:What is this,

[tiktokfx]

No, it isn't. The mod is clearly of an SE. There are two floppy slots. The SE/3000 refers to the fact that it has a 3GHz processor in it. Also, even if it were an SE/30, it's still not an original 30MHz computer. SE/30's were 16 MHz 680THIRTIES.

Re:Akihabara

[owlicks58]

I'm not saying you faked this, but as someone who uses photoshop every single day and my job is retouching pictures I can tell you that screen is fake. It's a bad fake at that. The color is far too uniform, a real screen would have much more light reflected. Not to mention it's wider at the top than it is at the bottom, look at the width of the monitor compared to the side of the case. And yes, the most obvious is the top corners from the old monitor showing through, even the bottom corners had a poor job done on them. I'm sure it was faked by someone else.

Re:What is this,

[insmod_ex]

The SE/30 ran at only 16Mhz.

Re:How sad...

[capmilk]

Remember "Back to the Future" part 2? There was a Mac Plus in the antiques shop, right next to Gray's Sports Almanac. I can't remember the price tag, but it did not seem to be awfully valuable. But hey, that was only 2015. :)

Re:Should use Objectdock

[System.out.println()]

Objectdock = Windows XP
Baghira = I don't have a fucking clue
KSmoothDock = Linux

As one of the other posters noted, it appears he would like to play some games on it.