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Mac mini Built Into Wall

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-you-can dept.

Lilmuckers writes "I have just completed a project to build a Mac mini into the wall of my kitchen. It is hidden and everything works perfectly."

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  1. Real Estate Sure is Expensive these days by WebHostingGuy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He couldn't find space for an Mac mini? It's only 6.5 inches wide and 2 inches tall.

    If space was such a critical factor just get the iMac with the computer built into the monitor. Add a wireless keyboard and wireless mouse and you can store them in a drawer when not needed.

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    1. Re:Real Estate Sure is Expensive these days by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Insightful

      He couldn't find space for an Mac mini? It's only 6.5 inches wide and 2 inches tall.

      Two things:

      1- there's more to space-taking than just the size of an object: put a 6.5 wide object in the middle of a desk, and you may well find it cumbersome, either because you work with large objects on the desk anymore, or because it gets in your way, or whatever. There's also the clutter of cables going to/from it that, in my experience, is much much more anoying than the space taken by the computer.

      2 - the guy may have wanted a neat, out-of-sight installation. Sticking your computer into the wall is the definite way of hiding your computer :-)

      Just so you know, my computer is hidden in a cupboard, and I have extra-long VGA, keyboard, mouse... cables going to my desk. It really is much cleaner visually, not to mention the lack of noise.

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  2. All that work... by FatSean · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...for an underpowered box. Shoulda rolled a household server. Meh.

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    1. Re:All that work... by chrysrobyn · · Score: 2, Insightful
      ...for an underpowered box. Shoulda rolled a household server. Meh.

      Underpowered? This thing is in the kitchen, right? What the heck are you doing in your kitchen that a 1GHz+ processor running MacOSX is "underpowered"? Maybe "underpowered for a game rig", maybe "the kitchen is no place for a computer", but combining them? A computer in the kitchen will be used for recipies and e-mail. 1.25GHz is plenty for that. He won't even notice that the hard drive is less than 10k RPM.

  3. It's not built into the kitchen... by Banner · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just the wires are. The MAC is under the cabinent.

    This isn't innovative at all.

  4. Much ado about... by jez9999 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For alllll that effort he went through, this was the final result.

    I was expecting to see something beautifully plugged into the wall like an ATM or whatnot, but this just looks like a regular computer. If he'd just put the Mac Mini under the table it'd look the same. Haha.

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  5. Small, but not water proof by intmainvoid · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The kitchen strikes me as somewhere where there's often water, and from my limited experience with water and computers, that might not be a good thing! Of course a Mini is bordering on being cheap enough to be disposable...

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  6. Re:Arrrrrrrg by suitepotato · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And does it come under the heading ironic that this site boasts of W3C compliance, arrogantly stops IE users with some insult warning screen despite the site rendering just fine when you get past it, and violates probably a dozen of the rules laid down in the very first incarnation of Vincent Flanders' Webpages That Suck?.

    Wrapping yourself in anti-MS/anti-IE leetness and promptly do the website wrong anyhow seems to be getting alarmingly common.

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  7. Parent right on the money! by goldspider · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That sort of things irritate me. Sure, I'm all about standards compliance, but there's no need to make it a religion as this asshat has. There is NO need whatsoever to interrupt a user and lecture him for using an 'inferior' browser.

    Yay, your code is standards compliant. Good for you. If you're that worried about complaining IE users, you obviously don't know how to code a standards-compliant website that doesn't break non-compliant browsers. So good of you to publicly reveal your web programming shortcomings.

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  8. all that work to hide wires in the wall? by speedtrials · · Score: 2, Insightful

    get laptop sheeesh

  9. Re:Arrrrrrrg by jinushaun · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Here [Next] is [Next] my [Next] Mac [Next] Mini [Next] in [Next] a [Next] wall.

    Very bad form indeed, and he basically set himself up for being Slashdotted. Yes, let's force several thousand people each to access your server 21 times.

  10. What makes it all very funny... by Cloud+K · · Score: 5, Insightful

    - That he was so obsessed with the goal of hiding a computer in a wall that he went out and bought a computer that's so small there's absolutely no point in hiding it in the wall. And to make matters funnier, he didn't make the CD drive accessible and had to buy an external one... about the same size as a Mac Mini and a lot uglier.

    - This quote: "Since the Mac is designed in america, it's most convenient to measure it in their units, Imperial units, goodness knows why they can't use SI units like the rest of the world, probably their bias against the french."
    (Hahaha. He has a point.)

    - This picture: http://www.caffeine-junkies.com/images/articles/ik itchen/cut5.jpg
    Just screams out 'M-m-m-mac mini!'
    He should've scrawled labels on it with black marker pen...

    - The whole "I'm so cool, I own a computer made by Apple Macintosh" (it's Apple, retard), "and I openly show how much I hate IE" (annoying) and "Let's deliberately get to a stage where I have to test it's still working as an excuse to show an Apple desktop" thing he has going.

    - This unnecessary comment: "NOTE FOR LAYMEN: it's imperitive that the wires for the LED are kept the same way around, because an LED is just that, a DIODE, and thus it will only work if the current is going one way."
    Well, no shit Sherlock! I'm glad your university degree taught you *something*. Personally I learned that in Science class at about age 12.

    - The excessive use of CAT5 for everything just to look cool to a Slashdot audience. Ironically, ends up looking a complete pratt by using a patch cable *outside* of the wall. I have no words!

    - At the end of the day, all he did was plonk the Mini on the floor and create a wall-mounted port replicator, and even end up wasting money on an external optical drive!

    Got to love it. You have to be sorry for him, he's obviously just trying to look cool. He's also fallen for the old pitfall of obsessing so much about solving a challenge that didn't even exist, he ended up creating more problems and overcomplicating the whole thing. But it's so funny.

  11. Took something good, made it a kludge. by Oz0ne · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm all for DIY, and clever uses of technology. This however, was not one. The mini is a pretty little pc. It's tiny, aesthetically pleasing... heck it's something to show off, not hide.

    So this guy cut it up, added a couple plates to his wall, cluttered his table top with some wires and.. for what? Saving less than 1 square foot of countertop.

    We should have awards for best misuse of good technology.