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Mini iMac Mod Wants to Be a Real Mac When it Grows Up

A German modder under the alias Phyro-Mane took an old laptop and hacked it together to resemble a scaled down iMac, in fact calling it the iMacmini. But ironically, it runs Windows XP skinned to look like OS X. The mod features a 14-inch screen, AMD Athlon XP 1700+ processor, 20 GB HDD and 512 MB RAM. The AMD processor ruled out any possibility of an OS X install. Still, the aesthetic appeal of the iMacmini cannot be denied. [Case-Modder via Hack A Day]

4:15 PM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By Adrian Covert
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ned flanders at 04:25 PM on 04/14/08
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and no jay leno chin!
ned flanders at 04:26 PM on 04/14/08
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and no jay leno chin!
parcaelum at 04:27 PM on 04/14/08
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xp with flyakite.
daftrok at 04:31 PM on 04/14/08
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Thats some thick shit.
Kaiser-Machead at 04:33 PM on 04/14/08
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I wish someone would mod a Dell display to look like an Apple Cinema Display.
tamoko at 04:34 PM on 04/14/08
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That baby's THICK...but a nice little mod all the same. The scratch built stand is a nice touch too.
nutbastard at 04:34 PM on 04/14/08
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shoulda tried an OSX86 install, or mac4lin on ubuntu...
Rain-man at 04:45 PM on 04/14/08
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Looks rough, but has a nice hand-made quality. Great that the stand came out well.
thistle.john at 04:47 PM on 04/14/08
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what size scren are we talking about here 15" ?
MrHaroHaro at 04:50 PM on 04/14/08
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That's actually kind of nice but I would much rather see it run a different look than the OSX skin.
chrisaroz at 05:00 PM on 04/14/08
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I hereby officially deny the aesthetic appeal of the iMacmini.
ipodrulz at 05:14 PM on 04/14/08
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That thing is unfortunately horribly thick. But since its home made....I'll let it go. i probably couldn't do better.
Skeptic at 05:22 PM on 04/14/08
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Maybe it's just the photo but it looks like crap from the front.

The dock in Windoz is pretty funny, though.
jackfrost132 at 05:24 PM on 04/14/08
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It's not running OSX because why? When Windows is the more sensible option in regards to it running stuff he'll actually want to run and Linux is much better for a Linux based file system. Now I'm not some rabid MicroLinuxSoft fan boy and I agree OSX is nice if you're buying the mac to go with it. But Microsoft has a vastly larger market share and thus a much broader range of software to choose from. Linux is free and also because it's developed on an open source community has all the stability/usability of OSX thanks to Ubuntu making it so popular and easy to adapt to and also there's a software equivalent in Linux for anything OSX has to offer, the only difference being that it's free. Of course alot of the free counterparts aren't as easy as OSX due to their freeness, but they're close enough that most can adapt. So yeah, OSX is nice if you're buying an actual mac, but if not, I'd rather go windows or Linux, hell, you can even install BSD and you're practically running OSX.
shadow2424 at 06:35 PM on 04/14/08
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Nice mod work, though in the end it still runs Windows.
parcaelum at 07:00 PM on 04/14/08
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@jackfrost132: are you SURE you aren't some rabid MicroLinuxSOft fan boy?
diabolusunknown at 07:20 PM on 04/14/08
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"Linux is free and also because it's developed on an open source community has all the stability/usability of OSX thanks to Ubuntu making it so popular and easy to adapt to and also there's a software equivalent in Linux for anything OSX has to offer, the only difference being that it's free."

I think my mind ran out of breath after reading that sentence.

And why didnt he use a widescreen 19"???

Probably would have made it easier to fit all that in without making it thick.
MuffinFlavored at 07:22 PM on 04/14/08
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Mac OS X can be run on an AMD system.
elislider at 09:50 PM on 04/14/08
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could be an OSX install. i did it on my Athlon 3500+ a long time agp
jackfrost132 at 01:14 AM on 04/15/08
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@diabolusunknown: My mind takes underwater breath training. But yeah, granted the period probably should have dropped in after "adapt to".

@parcaelum: Fairly, I just get hung up on the price point for macs. Being a poor college student, my computer is usually upgraded in pieces at a time, so making a giant investment all at once makes me a sad panda. OSX is definitely nice as silk but IMHO only if you actually own a mac. One of the reasons OSX runs so well is because it's designed and developed with Apples pre-selected hardware in mind, so running a hackintosh version of OSX on hardware it was never designed for just seems silly to me when 1/2 the reason you buy it is for it's stability(Keep in mind my comments are assuming this is being installed on a non-mac pc like the one in the article). Also... I just got my rabies shots, I'm clean.
jamesuschrist at 02:23 AM on 04/15/08
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Thirded on the AMD-ability. I had 10.4 on a AMD 4000+. Haven't heard any news about 10.5 now but I'm sure it's been hacked to run on AMD.