Guy puts mac mini in micro ATX case...

[Ciber]

Link


... To umm, make a server...

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Technically since it's a working mirror, I'll withhold the R.

Edit - Wait, Mac to PC conversion? Never mind.

- M4H

 

[notfred]

Uh, so now it's BIGGER than it was? Why?

 

[Jzero]

Rube Goldberg might be impressed if he were alive today. I, however, am not.

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: notfred
Uh, so now it's BIGGER than it was? Why?

LOL, my thought exactly.

 

[nakedfrog]

"For my next trick, I'll be mounting a mini ITX-based PC into an XBox case."

 

[Lonyo]

....to make a server (just finishing off the OP)

 

[Ciber]

Originally posted by: notfred
Uh, so now it's BIGGER than it was? Why?

Poor man's Xserve?

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Kevin Rose hollowed out the Mac Mini and put in a nano-atx motherboard to make a tiny PC. WTF for, who knows.....but I think it proved something important.

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
Kevin Rose hollowed out the Mac Mini and put in a nano-atx motherboard to make a tiny PC. WTF for, who knows.....but I think it proved something important.

We are *clearly* too stupid to grasp the significance of such a feat

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: Jzero

Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
Kevin Rose hollowed out the Mac Mini and put in a nano-atx motherboard to make a tiny PC. WTF for, who knows.....but I think it proved something important.

We are *clearly* too stupid to grasp the significance of such a feat

*looks up from drooling and chewing shoelaces* I likes feet!

 

[NutBucket]

Originally posted by: Jzero

Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
Kevin Rose hollowed out the Mac Mini and put in a nano-atx motherboard to make a tiny PC. WTF for, who knows.....but I think it proved something important.

We are *clearly* too stupid to grasp the significance of such a feat

Uh, it isn't that special that mac decided to stick a laptop into a tiny case and call it a desktop?

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: MrChad

Originally posted by: notfred
Uh, so now it's BIGGER than it was? Why?

LOL, my thought exactly.

... uhh... the part where you read why he did that?

He wanted to turn it into a server, the largest 2.5 drive avaiable is 100GB.. not enough for him. He got a 200GB 7200RPM Maxtor and it wouldn't fit in there. He wasn't concerned so much about the look or size so much as that it was cost efficient.

The thing I wonder is why he was so stupid as to not build a PC instead. He could have a better server for less than this thing cost! But I guess macfanboy pride is too strong to do that.

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: Injury
He wasn't concerned so much about the look or size so much as that it was cost efficient.

The thing I wonder is why he was so stupid as to not build a PC instead. He could have a better server for less than this thing cost! But I guess macfanboy pride is too strong to do that.

Exactly...why would one do this instead of, say, building an x86-based BSD server?

I'm a big Mac fan...this just seems like a totally bass-ackwards way to do this.