The Cube lives again, sorta
Here's a clever blending of Apple past and present, in keeping with our post yesterday on Mac mini mods. Rich Willis has managed to stuff a Mac mini, an external HD, and an Airport Extreme into the clear plastic shell of an old G4 Cube. Moving very slowly (to avoid melting the acrylic Cube case) he cut away the back of the case to give access to the various ports and then installed some acrylic supports to hold everything up. Voilà -- the Cube lives again, sorta. Rich has a gallery up that documents the entire process.
[via Engadget]
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Rick said 12:28PM on 5-24-2008
wow, that's ugly.
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Ryan said 1:13PM on 5-24-2008
I completely agree. There is a reason why this hasn't been done before—because it looks like shite.
Dinesh said 12:34PM on 5-24-2008
wow, interesting design there.
one can imagine it getting VERY hot in there.. especially with the AirPort Extreme which expels a lot of heat.
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Josh said 12:46PM on 5-24-2008
Er... wasn't this posted on here like a year ago? oO
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/07/15/rig-of-the-week-cube-all-in-one/
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tim said 1:30PM on 5-24-2008
LOL! thats hilarious.
drumby said 2:46PM on 5-24-2008
Wow. Busted.
ZeroCorpse said 1:12PM on 5-24-2008
I'm going to stick a MacBook into an old Performa case. That should get me on the tech blogs for sure!
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Greg said 1:16PM on 5-24-2008
Why didn't he put the mini on the front, facing upward? That way, it would look better, it would be slot loading from the top, and all the ports would be accessible from the bottom?
He could have done a lot better, although I hate to be so outward. I mean, how does he get to the disk drive?
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etchasketch said 2:06PM on 5-24-2008
Have some respect for the dead! This is worse than the teenagers in Houston who dug up a corpse to make a bong out of its skull.
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450cube said 3:50PM on 5-24-2008
One, it will overheat. Two, how do you get cd's in? Three, what a waste of a cube!
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NorCalExplorer said 6:38PM on 5-24-2008
I agree.
Unregistered said 11:50PM on 5-24-2008
it may have taken some effort, but its still hideous.
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charles Mangin said 12:21AM on 5-25-2008
true, it's not the most attractive use of a Cube, but i'm okay with it as long as he did something like this with the Cube's innards:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/15994009@N06/sets/72157605213095006/
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smacklin said 4:25AM on 5-25-2008
The Cube is not dead. I have one. It works just fine. I love my cube.
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Stuart Bell said 11:07AM on 5-25-2008
The whole point of the Cube is elegant design, for which this disaster deserves about 0.5 out of 10.
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An o Neamus said 5:12AM on 5-26-2008
A *much* better take on this idea can be found here:
http://www.123macmini.com.nyud.net:8080/macminicube/
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Rick said 2:10AM on 5-27-2008
true.