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

jamesuschrist — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:23:40 EDT

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.

jamesuschrist

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

jackfrost132 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:14:50 EDT

@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.

jackfrost132

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

elislider — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:50:29 EDT

could be an OSX install. i did it on my Athlon 3500+ a long time agp

elislider

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MuffinFlavored — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:22:54 EDT

Mac OS X can be run on an AMD system.

MuffinFlavored

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

diabolusunknown — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:20:33 EDT

"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.

diabolusunknown

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parcaelum — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:00:28 EDT

@jackfrost132: are you SURE you aren't some rabid MicroLinuxSOft fan boy?

parcaelum

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

shadow2424 — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:35:54 EDT

Nice mod work, though in the end it still runs Windows.

shadow2424

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

jackfrost132 — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:24:59 EDT

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.

jackfrost132

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Skeptic — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:22:55 EDT

Maybe it's just the photo but it looks like crap from the front.

The dock in Windoz is pretty funny, though.

Skeptic

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

ipodrulz — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:14:51 EDT

That thing is unfortunately horribly thick. But since its home made....I'll let it go. i probably couldn't do better.

ipodrulz

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chrisaroz — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:00:01 EDT

I hereby officially deny the aesthetic appeal of the iMacmini.

chrisaroz

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

MrHaroHaro — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:50:46 EDT

That's actually kind of nice but I would much rather see it run a different look than the OSX skin.

MrHaroHaro

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thistle.john — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:47:06 EDT

what size scren are we talking about here 15" ?

thistle.john

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

Rain-man — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:45:42 EDT

Looks rough, but has a nice hand-made quality. Great that the stand came out well.

Rain-man

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

nutbastard — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:34:39 EDT

shoulda tried an OSX86 install, or mac4lin on ubuntu...

nutbastard

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tamoko — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:34:00 EDT

That baby's THICK...but a nice little mod all the same. The scratch built stand is a nice touch too.

tamoko

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Kaiser-Machead's LEGO WALL-E — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:33:02 EDT

I wish someone would mod a Dell display to look like an Apple Cinema Display.

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daftrok — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:31:20 EDT

Thats some thick shit.

daftrok

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parcaelum — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:27:00 EDT

xp with flyakite.

parcaelum

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ned flanders — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:26:52 EDT

and no jay leno chin!

ned flanders

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

ned flanders — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:25:28 EDT

and no jay leno chin!

ned flanders