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Project idea: G5-style Mini

I got my hands on one of the new OWC Mercury Elite cases last week -- the big one that looks most like a mini-G5 tower. I think it would make a fantastic casemod project for the Mini-ITX crowd (with a nano-ITX board, I'd guess). Imagine a little card-reader slot right where the CD/DVD drive is on the real PowerMac. Dare I say it would be cute?

The irony is that, if somebody builds such a thing, it will likely be Windows/Linux only -- unless they do it by stuffing the guts of a Mini inside.

Sunday, August 28th, 2005
fun + hardware