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Mac mini in a Volkswagen
pyramis writes "Matt Turner has installed a Mac mini into his Volkswagen as an integrated audio/video system. He's distributed the I/O ports around the cab for convenient access and installed a remote power button right into the dashboard. Cool pics of all of this, plus a detailed article on that cool power button."
Slashdot meets Pimp My Ride...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Mini-mini: mac mini in a mini cooper?
"Looks like his webserver was RUNNING on the Mac Mini!" Hahahaha, oh MERCY. My aching sides!
I predict the hardware might be buggy.
"Empathise with stupidity, and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot." - Iain M. Banks
Wow, these guys really do have a death wish. Not only did they post Mac stuff to Slashdot, their "site is down" page has a refresh tag to ensure that the process of DDoSing itself is completely automated.
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
The question of "why would anyone do this?" simply doesn't exist. It's only a question of "how do I do this?" and, even more importantly, "how far can I take it?"
Of course, eventually this leads to things like cloning carnivorous dinosaurs and destroying small planets, but that's what science fiction writers are supposed to worry about.
Peace
I predict in 20 years, half the articles on slashdot will be cool cyborg mods (to the human body).
"I slipped the mini under my frontal lobe, so that latencey to the computational region of my brain is minimized, it is powered on my body heat, and the coolest thing, is that I have an IO port on my forehead so that I don't have to deal with the irritation of reaching around to the back of my head to plug in my peripherals."
I'll be impressed when he can fit it into this.
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Matt Turner may have turned his Mac mini into a Volkswagen, but we've turned his Web site into a Yugo.
Oh, well, at least there's MirrorDot.
Yeah, that really drives me crazy. I mean, I don't mean to steer the conversation in any way or another, but those jokes just don't turn my crank. They signal to me, rather, that Slashdotters prefer automatic over manual posting. The way this place is coasting along in neutral mediocrity, well, it makes me sad. We should change gears around here, and make an agreement to speed up the humor and put the brakes on predictable comments.
I had a Dell for one year before it fried. Bough another, same deal. The costomer service/documentation sucked. On the other hand, I have now had a mac Powerbook for the last two years, and its providing better functionality than any other machine I have bought. When you buy apple, you buy quality. Think of an apple as a Lexus, and a dell as a Ugo. Sure, the Ugo will get you from point A to point B, but it is made of inferrior parts, tends to fail, and lacks any style.
Let's be honest here, a Dell isn't as bad as a Yugo. It's more like a Chrysler.
I think you need to get laid.
Now you're just being a trend whore too... just because everyone else gets laid, you want him to as well.
ObJoke: And driving a Volkswagen Beetle at 94 mph along the freeway is?
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