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The 21" Frankenstein iMac

Posted by Hemos on from the it-lives! dept.

webslacker writes "One of the strangest hardware hack jobs I've ever seen: Some guy named Don Hardy decides that he doesn't like the 15" monitor in his iMac and happens to have a 21" Nokia lying around. Does he A) find some clever way to solder a VGA-out from his iMac to his monitor, B) toss them both out, or C) take them both apart and merge them into one unit? "

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  1. Re:Now THAT's what I call a hack job! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4

    They'd have to call it iBigMac...

  2. man behind the curtains by jon_c · · Score: 5

    anyone else suspicious that they're is a Mac under the table?, I'm not saying he didn't do it. it's just it looks so much like a monitor with a keyboard in front. also he doesn't talk very much about it technically, more comically. most of the technical talk is about how hard it was to get the cd-rom in. the cd-rom being the only visible proof that anything was done to the monitor.

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  3. Down with beige! by konstant · · Score: 5

    His new machine no longer has a transparent blue casing! Avert your eyes my Mac brethren, it is a snare set by Satan to tempt you to the beige side!

    You call that an iMac? You are a tool of the PC imperialist dogs! Vive la France! No WTO! Anarchy!


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  4. Heh... by justin_saunders · · Score: 5
    Ok wise guy - now try that with a Palm Pilot...

    Cheers,
    Justin

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  6. Re:What about the linearity of the montior? by emmons · · Score: 4

    It's been a while, but as I remember the iMac has essentially 2 fairly distinct parts. The Monitor/shell part and the computer part. The computer (well motherboard at least) part can be unscrewed from the bottem and taken out (lots of scews, in bad places). The bottem of the monitor half is shielded. And damn, those things are a bitch to put back together. 20 different sized screws. I'd love to see the manufacturing process for one of those thigns.

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