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Mac mini Maximized With 3.5" Drives
Demolition writes "You just knew that someone would get around to this, didn't you?
In this how-to article from AppleTalk Australia, a step-by-step guide describes how to transplant a Mac mini into a micro-ATX case and a method to connect standard 3.5" hard drives to it (using do-it-yourself 2.5"-to-3.5" IDE adapters). Only some minor case modifications and some added cooling are needed to complete the project."
and already nuked.
Anybody have the article?
(And seriously, if nobody ever R's T Fing A, why do servers go down faster than a hooker for a benjamin?)
Looks like they used it to host the page..
Up in flames already.
Combine this with this articlehttp://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05 /01/30/2213249&tid=222&tid=174 from a few days ago, and you would have a miniMac in a Mini-ITX case, and a Mini-ITX in a Mini Mac case. It's a plot we've seen before. http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TOS/e pisode/68818.html
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
It seems their server is running tpc via AppleTalk. Long live PhoneNet!
-dameron
I always wanted a Mac but they were so damn ugly. If only mac minis had been designed to look like e-machines. Today truly is a great day.
Sacrilege aside, putting a Mac Mini in a PC case has one key definite advantage:
It would let you sneak a Mac into workplaces whose IT Manager(s) have a "no Macs ever, over my dead body" policy.
Just think: you could have a larger case containing a regular PC, but with the guts of a Mac Mini placed in the space around empty drive/PSU bays.
Hide a KVM switch somewhere and bingo... Windows/Linux when the PHB/IT Manager is around, Mac OS X when you want to get some work done!
if part of the allure is its looks, then what's dumb about putting a pc in its good looking case?
or are you using reverse psychology and you actually think this article ISN'T dumb?
...including some sure-to-be-released FireWire/USB 2.0 enclosures that will mimic Mac mini's appearance, and be designed to sit underneath or near a Mac mini and still be aesthetically pleasing.
Don't tease me!
Or you could just carry in the Mac mini hidden inside your briefcase and hide it under your desk, without the fake case.
The Mac Mini is small enough to fit, whole and unblemished, into any old Apple model (except maybe the Cube, and I'm sure the guts would fit into that once the case was off).
Fit a Mac Mini into a Timex-Sinclair, and then I'll be impressed. =)
PS. I wonder how you'd type command-T on the membrane keyboard.
I'm just finishing up the docs on my conversion - I've implanted a Dell Axim PocketPC into a Compaq Luggable. The biggest challenge was connecting the Axim's QVGA to the luggable's 80x32 amber CRT...
The neat thing is, I've got more power in the luggable now than when it was new, and it wieghs about 15 pounds less, as well.
The cure for cancer is coming: Reovirus
Mac ITX
Do that with a Mini.
Amy
Apple decides beforehand.
They're 'leaders' and 'innovators' and don't you dare presume you know better than them regarding your needs.
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Right. Because Apples are computers for rich people.
Snob appeal, and all that. Like when we were all kids. All the gang had cheap Huffy or Sears bikes, and we had a lot of fun with them. The snotty kid on the end of the block had a Schwinn, and all 'Schwinn-approved' accessories on it.
Nobody liked that kid.
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OS X will run X11 desktop environments natively, so you only have to hit a key combination to go from a full-screen X11 environment back to OS X. You could also run Windows on Virtual PC and complain about how incredibly slow it is. ;)
"Give a man fire, and he'll be warm for a day; set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life
Also, I liked the idea of having a window and UV cathode tubes illuminating the internals...
Yeah, because a light and windows makes the computer internals sooo much better.
More than powerful enough for hosting 3 email addresses...
Just tell me which three e-mail addresses.
About 2/3 of the way through the article:
'Finally came the big test - with everything attached I hit the switch. BONG...it's alive! '
No buddy, a BONG is the thing you were smoking when you came up with this inane idea. Whats next, putting the ipod into an old-school walkman shell?
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I would imagine in the trenches, your nodes must suffer more from mud, rain, lack of sleep and jammed rifles cartridges. If I were you, I'd put your systems in a climate-controlled environment. You'd see a lot fewer failures.
With your hubris of hundreds, try your cynicism with someone else.
Mac Mini in mini-ATX case boots for furst time
... ..
Mac Mini:
That's odd, it feels so drafty... my case I can't feel my case! What is going on? Wait, computer two across the room has an iSight!
Mac mini opens iChat and connects to Computer Two
Mac Mini:
That's odd, I can't see myself anywhere... zoom in... refine picture... there's nothing just that giant brick and....
THE HORROR!!!
Mac Mini connects power supply to ground directly across processor core - bet you didn't know it could do that! HCF opcode lives on.
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you know how long Gentoo would take to install on that 2nd hand pentium 233 you speak of?!?!?!!?
psshhhhh...
...spike
Ewwwwww, coconut...