MacMods of the Year for 2008 announced

I find it interesting that despite all of the slick case designs and gadget melds, the winner ends up being a software hack (well, it's actually more than a software hack, but still, you won't find any neon tubing in this mod, just a beige case): Leopard running on a PowerMac 8500. The mod itself ends up being a fine trip over the history of Apple's current software, its past machines, and all of the gooey chips and hardware inside. Very cool. Kudos to all the modders for their work -- we can't wait to see what 2009 brings to the mod community.
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MacMod.com has announced their honorees for the best mods on Macs that they saw last year, and you can see all of the hacks and mods over...
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collide000
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Why on earth would you do that? Why? Macs are beautifully designed, why shove it in a ghastly 360 case? It's sacrilege.
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Tim
You know, the first 360 demos were run by a couple PowerMac G5s working in tandem because of their PowerPC processors. I wonder if it'd be possible to jerry-rig an emulator or API layer (a la Wine) to do that on those machines...
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