Maxcelerate bootable dock and hub for mac Mini
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 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.
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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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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 Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThe 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 Permalink rate up rate down ReplyClever 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 Permalink rate up rate down ReplyJust 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 Permalink rate up rate down Replydoesn't the mini loose its mininess when you put stuff under it like that?
August 31 2005 at 6:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyright. it also says compatible with 'Windows 98SE, ME, 2000, XP'
August 31 2005 at 6:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyYou 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 Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHot Apps on TUAW
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