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Maxcelerate bootable dock and hub for mac Mini

maxceleratePeople seem compelled to hack up the Mac mini. It's the little box that just begs to be souped up. To that end, Wiebetch introduces the Maxcelerate. It's an external drive enclosure and hub that sits beneath your mini and seriously beefs it up. Weibetech states you'll get a 30% increase in read/write times when you use the Macxelerate as your boot drive (vs. the standard mini drive), and that it stores up to 500GB of your stuff. Sounds like a digital video station waiting to happen.

Other features include: three USB 2.0 ports, three FireWire 400 ports, support for 3.5" IDE drives and daisy-chaining of USB 1.1/2.0 and/or FireWire 400 devices. The website says it requires Mac OS 9.x or better, which is odd, as the Mini won't boot into OS 9. Perhaps they meant classic? The Maxcelelrate cost ranges from $119.95US to $689.95, depending on how you have it configured.
[Via MacNN]
 

People seem compelled to hack up the Mac mini. It's the little box that just begs to be souped up. To that end, Wiebetch introduces the...
 

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yuwing

looks ugly ....

September 01 2005 at 1:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
brian

Put ports on the front! Put ports on the front! Put ports on the front! Put ports on the front! ARRGH!!!!!!

September 01 2005 at 11:25 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Justin France

The Mac Mini "begs" to be souped up - don't you mean "is in dire need of a reasonably-spec'd harddrive"? So painfully slow. Hinders the OS.

August 31 2005 at 10:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mike

Clever marketing, since on a modern Mac you can boot off of almost any external FireWire (and probably USB) drive that the system can see, is properly formatted, and has a valid OS X install (using the Startup Disk prefpane).

August 31 2005 at 7:33 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ahmed

Just wondering about: "Weibetech states you'll get a 30% increase in read/write times when you use the Macxelerate as your boot drive (vs. the standard mini drive), and that it stores up to..." Is it an increase/decrease in read/write time?? because if I get a 30% increase in read/write time that's a performance penalty of 30%, which is not something one would like to claim about his product causing!

August 31 2005 at 7:02 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
David

doesn't the mini loose its mininess when you put stuff under it like that?

August 31 2005 at 6:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
sam

right. it also says compatible with 'Windows 98SE, ME, 2000, XP'

August 31 2005 at 6:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
insider

You don't have to use it for the Mac mini, this hub is also interesting for your OS 9 Mac...

August 31 2005 at 6:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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