Mac Mini Case, PC innards

[loup garou]

First project of the sort I've seen.

Unfortunately, the nanoITX boards aren't available to the general public yet, he couldn't squeeze an optical drive in, and the 1GHz Nehemiah isn't exactly a powerhouse. 🙁

Very cool though.

EDIT: I wonder how he supplies power to it? 😕 No comment on the PSU...

 

[imported_Lucifer]

Thats pretty cool! Good question about the PSU though.

 

[halfadder]

The power supply is the U-shaped daughter board that wraps around the back panel ports. It's actually just a DC-DC converter, and requires an external power brick like what the Mac Mini ships with.

I'm looking forward to the Nanode case for the Nano-ITX boards. The Nanode is a bit bigger than the Mac Mini, but it has room for both a hard drive and an optical drive.

 

[Eug]

Originally posted by: werk
First project of the sort I've seen.

Unfortunately, the nanoITX boards aren't available to the general public yet, he couldn't squeeze an optical drive in, and the 1GHz Nehemiah isn't exactly a powerhouse. 🙁

Very cool though.

Strange is more like it, and a complete waste of time. 😛

 

[Commodus]

Yeah, it's hardly a technical feat. No optical drive inside the case, runs too hot, and still isn't as fast as the Mac hardware it's supposed to replace. 🙂

 

[phisrow]

This one is a rather kludgy hack; but I am rather looking forward to the inevitable crop of x86 clones of the mac mini concept. Sure, they'll inevitably be inelegant by comparison, some will be loud, others will be slow, others will just be fugly; but with all the cheap celeron M and low end pentium Ms sloshing around I'm sure any halfway competent OEM could knock something together. I'd like a mini for playing around with OSX as much as the next fellow; but what I really want is a tiny little Linux box whose peformance doesn't suck, and the mini has rather dubious Linux support.