Case Tweaking

A reader writes "I don't know what they were smoking, but these guys decided that the G4 case makes for a great LAN party box. Of course, without the G4 and all that yucky Mac hardware -- just the aesthetics. They go about hacking and modding the case, turning a low power (aka, weak) x86 box and toss it into the G4 casing, and don't end up destroying the case to make everything fit. Lotsa pictures and explanations of every step in the process"

These guys are really smart!

[sg3000]

Next project: take a new PowerBook G4 [apple.com], and remove all the innards and transplant them in an IBM PCjr case! That way you can get rid of the yucky titanium case and downright sickening 15.2" wide-aspect ratio screen. Cool!

Watch Out For The Lawyers

[PingXao]

Apple won't be happy about this! They'll claim their trademarked logo is being violated by running software not meant to be used on Apple hardware. The casual observer will associate that software with Apple, and as a result their good name will have suffered.

SOMEBODY CALL THE POLICE!

money to blow?

[moniker_21]

Geeesh, where does one get the money to buy a G4 just to remove out all the internal parts?

Watch next week as we disembowel an SGI O2 to make a bird feeder!

no, no, no!

[sootman]

you got it all backwards! you're supposed to take Mac guts (now that they use ATX power supplies) and put them into fat PC cases so you can add more drives than just two internal 3.5s! eesh, some people...

Re:Oh for goodness sakes!

[unformed]

Pretty soon we'll have to have flames shooting out of the floppy drive just to get chicks. I'm sorry man, but as a geek, if I modding my case will get me chicks, shit hell yeah, I'll do it.

Oh for goodness sakes!

[chancycat]

Where do kids get the money to obtain a G4 just to gut it and add the organs of ANOTHER computer, ALL just to have a show piece??

Pretty soon we'll have to have flames shooting out of the floppy drive just to get chicks.

Ug

OK , let me get this straight:

[cygnus]

d00d wants to 0wn at the next LAN party, so he takes a Powermac G4 case and installs inside:

• A 440LX-based motherboard
• A Celeron 466 MHz

wouldn't he be better off with the original Apple hardware? i mean, if you're hacking an Apple case, at least put something faster in it, like dual T-Birds!

Re:Floppies

[csbruce]

Gah! What's everyone's obsession with the floppy drive? They suck, get over it.

Well, before the Internet came along, floppies were the best method for exchanging viruses.

This brings a nasty visit from Clarus...

[mattkime]

If I properly recall my Computer Voodoo course, placing an x86 motherboard into an Apple case conjures up Clarus the Dogcow in his most terrible form.

Normally, he lives in the "Page Setup" dialog box in Classic Mac OS. He makes sure you know what you're doing with your printer options. Further, he's kind of cute.

However, placing the untamed power of a x86 board inside the sleek, modern design of a G4 case causes an energy imbalance which disturbs Clarus. Clarus rises from the "Page Setup" and MOOFs until every last screw holding the system together falls out. Rejoing the parts will only result in IRQ conflicts, although each part will work fine in another machine.

For more information on Clarus:

http://developer.apple.com/products/techsupport/ do gcow/

http://www.multimania.com/maddog/MOOF/index.html

And to help Clarus make the transition to Mac OS X, sign the following petition:
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/sod/petition.html