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This week's rig comes from reader nash_h, who modded a Cube to look like a tiny Mac Pro. First of all, we love Cubes and secondly, this is one sweet mod. Nice job, nash_h.Reply in the Mail.app with a specific quote.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
uggh said 3:02PM on 7-08-2007
I normally don't post here, but when someone is ripping off someone elses work I feel the need to.
Here is the original Power Mac G5 Cube mod done by a Japanese modder:
http://www.conf.co.jp/new_folder/gallery/g5cube.html
I can't stand it when people rip off other people's work without giving them credit.
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whitlock said 3:06PM on 7-08-2007
This is an old mod - http://www.conf.co.jp/new_folder/making/cube_11.html
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Ondra Soukup said 3:34PM on 7-08-2007
Did he really mod it :P ?
http://www.conf.co.jp/new_folder/gallery/g5cube.html
baaah...
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Renan said 4:32PM on 7-08-2007
See my blog:
http://cursosfree.blogspot.com
Bye
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Tim said 4:33PM on 7-08-2007
Looking at his flikr page, it looks like all his photos are taken from elsewhere rather than photos he's taken.
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Arun said 9:26PM on 7-08-2007
wow... I remember checking this out 2 years ago. I had to use some pretty bad japanese to english translation to understand what he did.
I hope you guys at tuaw take this down and give credit to the true modder.
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mikew said 6:04PM on 7-08-2007
http://flickr.com/photos/nashstradamus/231434314/
Perhaps the Bel Air, MD police would be interested in this?
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Mat said 6:07PM on 7-08-2007
I'm glad other people have beaten me to replying to this article. I remember reading about the original G5 mod when I was looking to mod my own cube a few years ago!
Shame on you Nash_h..boooooooo!
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Mark Benson said 6:22PM on 7-08-2007
I'll just add my voice an call FOUL! This dingus is a rip-off merchant and a liar. He posted a mod we've all seen before (and it is an excellent one, no doubt) from a guy in Japan, and then tried to claim on his Flickr library it was a new Mac Pro! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I laughed and fumed at the same time...
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Terts said 7:19PM on 7-08-2007
Nash is a very bad boy!
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Justin said 7:36PM on 7-08-2007
Um... I don't think he ripped off the guys work... It just looks like he posted the pictures of the cube onto his flickr page.
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Tim said 7:54PM on 7-08-2007
Justin: No, but he posted it to rig of the week which is supposed to show your own rig - in doing so, he made it appear to those who hadn't seen it before that it was something he created.
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nash_h said 7:58PM on 7-08-2007
i never claimed to have modded anything and
as the last guy said -- i found the pictures and posted on my flickr account. the title of the picture represents what it looked like to me. no shit it isn't a real apple product. Isn't there an iPhone story to publish?
And for the record, I think Apple should come out with something like this on their next revision of the mac mini. or some sort of a consumer model in between a mac pro and mini. they would fly off the shelves.
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Reg Muffet said 8:31PM on 7-08-2007
> "I think Apple should come out with something like this on their next revision of the mac mini. or some sort of a consumer model in between a mac pro and mini. they would fly off the shelves."
Seconded.
Thirded, fourth'ed, fifth'ed, and sixth'ed.
Do it, Steve, you stubborn son of a phone!
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nash_h said 8:44PM on 7-08-2007
also, this was only posted to the tuaw flickr group, not a rig of the week group. i wish i could take credit for this incredible work of art. sorry for any confusion.
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Bill Olson said 10:53PM on 7-08-2007
I'm not sure if anyone of you know that the current Mac mini was created with the exact same dimensions as many 3rd party card radios. This was done on purpose as apparently quite a few companies went to Apple asking for this.
This might just be a rumor but it seemed like a good reason for having those exact dimensions.
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andrew harrison said 10:30PM on 7-08-2007
wow, that's 2 bad Rigs of the Week in as many weeks.
what's going on TUAW?
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Sabon said 10:53PM on 7-08-2007
Not a bad rig. Just confusion about who created it. It's an excellent looking rig.
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me said 10:56PM on 7-08-2007
look, he fixed the names of it on his flickr page. so many people were sending him "hate comments" so he caved
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droors838 said 11:34PM on 7-08-2007
andrew harrison: You are correct, sir.
Whether nash_h is guilty of stealing the work of another modder is irrelevant. What concerns me is that no attempt was made to verify the authenticity of these supposed mods (ie. Rigs of the Week). Perhaps a more rigorous set of entry criteria should be established. Regardless, that's some sloppy journalism TUAW.
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