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Rig of the Week: The ATX G4

This week's rig features one of the best-looking G4s you'll ever see. Enterprising reader :: Jonathan transplanted the guts from his destroyed G4 into an ATX case he had lying around. Sure, the power buttons didn't line up and the had to do some sawing to make the ports accessible, but the important thing is that he saved a Mac. Good job.

ATX G4 posted by :: Jonathan.

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This week's rig features one of the best-looking G4s you'll ever see. Enterprising reader :: Jonathan transplanted the guts from his...
 

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Nicolas

Maybe he was making a joke?

June 11 2007 at 11:26 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
buthidae

Better than a MDD G4? That's a pretty big call...

June 11 2007 at 8:59 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jyunderwood

I know that the case is crap but I already had it and didn't want to buy a new case.

June 11 2007 at 1:16 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mr. E

People, people... It's beautiful because it was saved from the junkyard! :-)

June 10 2007 at 5:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Macskeeball

I'm not one to usually post TUAW criticisms, but Dave Caolo must be on crack if he thinks this is the best looking PowerMac G4. For one thing, the PowerMac G4 line included the PowerMac G4 Cube (second only to the iMac G4, IMO).

Even if we're talking strictly tower configurations of the PowerMac G4, there's the original Quicksilvers to consider.

June 10 2007 at 4:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Macskeeball

That thing is hideous!

June 10 2007 at 4:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bootle

This is probably the worst rig of the week yet... It's not even a rig, where's the monitor? or the desk?

I recommend skipping the week versus running this level of crap

June 10 2007 at 4:02 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Able-X

My actual PC looks 10 times better than that. There's a million ATX cases that could've been used that would've at least made the transplanted G4 aesthetically pleasing. That looks like a bad logitech experiment from 1997.

June 10 2007 at 3:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jon

That is the ugliest Mac I have ever seen in my life!
Period.

June 10 2007 at 3:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
JT

That's the ugliest rig ever - even for a "PC", that's still ugly.

Props for the innovation, but blech - it's like one of those 3rd world plastic surgeries gone horribly wrong.

June 10 2007 at 3:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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