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Mac mini to PC Hack

Posted by michael on from the squeeze-play dept.

DiZASTiX writes "Kevin Rose, the ever so popular host of G4/TechTV's The Screen Savers, has managed to fit a PC inside the Mac mini. 'I've seen a ton of articles around the web lately comparing the Mac mini to the near full size desktop PC. What they fail to compare is the amount of computing power per square inch you get with the Mini. So, I decided to take it upon myself to create the fastest PC possible with the size constraints of the Mini's small form factor.' The article covers most everything he did and includes pictures."

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  1. Re:It's all in the stuffing by Rob+Wilco · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ROTFL! Actually, hmm, yep - your sig is better.

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  2. Re:Wrong by Powercntrl · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    No, I get the point. Kevin Rose is an arrogant, spoiled fuckhead. He could have easily proven whatever profound point he thought he was making by cramming his leet 0-day 'prerelease' motherboard into a cardboard box of the same dimensions as the Mac mini. Then he also could have cheated by making it a bit taller and adding a DVD/CD-RW drive like the real Mac mini.

    Look, PC component manufacturers and people like K.R. can jizz on themselves all day long over the Mac mini's formfactor and still miss the bigger picture. What Apple accomplished was producing a machine that's as easy to use and afford as it is to integrate into your living space. It's more than just some hardware specs crammed into a small case.

    As for what Kevin did being News for Nerds, it's not. You can run VirtualPC or Remote Desktop Connection on OS X and make people think your Mac houses PC hardware without ever cracking the case. It's not as if what he did added any real additional capability to the machine. I find it rather fitting that Kevin's blog is being filled with ponzi scheme spam - it's only natural that garbage attracts maggots.

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  3. Re:Need a review by ImpTech · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Nope. Sorry. Pentium M should always smack the G4 clock-for-clock. Go look up the SPEC results. G4 is clock competitive with P6. Pentium M is P6 plus branch-predict optimizations plus 2MB L2, i.e. faster.

    G4s might be cheap, but thats only because they suck.