A Mac mini in an NES

This is an impressive mod. Brent Housen's friend has taken a Mac mini, gutted it, and reassembled it inside an 'old school' (as the kids say) NES. The power button on the NES puts the Mac mini to sleep, and the Reset button ejects the CD tray. Pretty sweet, I just hope you don't have to blow on the CD's repeatedly to get them to work.

[via Joystiq]

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Source: http://www.brentalan.com/blog/2006/02/28/mac-mini-inside-a-n…

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This is an impressive mod. Brent Housen's friend has taken a Mac mini, gutted it, and reassembled it inside an 'old school' (as the kids...

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Fabienne Serriere

Ross: I do believe Paul aka Tyrannous was being ironic and/or funny. "The Mess" was never meant to compete with a Mac mini/NES mod!

cheers,
fbz

March 01 2006 at 2:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

USTommyMC

I've seen many mods but this is just too cool.

March 01 2006 at 2:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ross

Followed your link, expecting to say "come on mate, just cause someone did it before doesn't make it a rip-off."

Then I followed the link... and it's even worse.

How are you comparing some guy who's fitted his mini into a NES with some guy who's created a horrible "monster" like that?

March 01 2006 at 2:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Paul

What a ripoff!!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tyrannous/97410006/

March 01 2006 at 2:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tan Hoang

That's awesome... Old school style.

March 01 2006 at 1:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Frank Tinsley

Whoa, I just realized that Mac minis don't even COME with CD trays! Dang that's a good job!

March 01 2006 at 1:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Matt

actually a great idea. I may just have to do with with one of the new core duo minis and throw some desktop drives in there to make it a fileserver :)

March 01 2006 at 1:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

David

Haha, yes. Blowing on CDs. Ha, that's great!

March 01 2006 at 12:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ralph

Nerd that I am, I love these kinds of mods. I'm old enough to remember getting PONG one Christmas, and having an Atari (back before anyone knew what "2600" meant). I never had an Intellivision but I did get a ColecoVision. And can you believe it, I had a Coleco ADAM as well. Geez, what a waste of money.

March 01 2006 at 12:13 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply