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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6-10-2007 @ 12:24PM
alex said...
BEST looking G4s??????????????
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6-10-2007 @ 1:01PM
Gruff said...
"BEST looking G4s??????????????"
I agree -- it looks like a PC came along and beat it with a fugly stick!
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6-10-2007 @ 1:07PM
Wheels said...
Burp...oh excuse me. How is that better looking than my G4 Gigabit Ethernet?
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6-10-2007 @ 3:04PM
JT said...
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.
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6-10-2007 @ 3:14PM
Jon said...
That is the ugliest Mac I have ever seen in my life!
Period.
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6-10-2007 @ 3:30PM
Able-X said...
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.
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6-10-2007 @ 4:04PM
bootle said...
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
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6-10-2007 @ 4:44PM
Macskeeball said...
That thing is hideous!
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6-10-2007 @ 4:59PM
Macskeeball said...
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.
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6-10-2007 @ 5:38PM
Mr. E said...
People, people... It's beautiful because it was saved from the junkyard! :-)
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6-11-2007 @ 1:16AM
Jonathan said...
I know that the case is crap but I already had it and didn't want to buy a new case.
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6-11-2007 @ 9:03AM
buthidae said...
Better than a MDD G4? That's a pretty big call...
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6-11-2007 @ 11:29AM
Nicolas Roe said...
Maybe he was making a joke?
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