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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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...
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A *much* better take on this idea can be found here:
http://www.123macmini.com.nyud.net:8080/macminicube/
The Cube is not dead. I have one. It works just fine. I love my cube.
May 25 2008 at 4:25 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replytrue, 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/
it may have taken some effort, but its still hideous.
May 24 2008 at 11:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThe whole point of the Cube is elegant design, for which this disaster deserves about 0.5 out of 10.
May 24 2008 at 4:13 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyOne, it will overheat. Two, how do you get cd's in? Three, what a waste of a cube!
May 24 2008 at 3:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHave 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.
May 24 2008 at 1:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhy 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?
I'm going to stick a MacBook into an old Performa case. That should get me on the tech blogs for sure!
May 24 2008 at 1:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyEr... 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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