Or maybe, just maybe, he still thinks the whole Mac experience is superior to Windows no matter how ancient it is. Maybe he's ashamed of being a Mac user or something.
We still can't get our heads around this one - Flickr poster Jud Cameron has taken the guts of a G3 Mac and installed them into a beige ATX Lian Li PC case, which presumably means that it's both a very, very slow PC and a very, very ugly Mac. But he ended up with one if of the ugliest computer mods ever - Mac or PC. Its creator - John Calhoun - had aimed to produce an MP3 jukebox/DVD player/TV recorder/iChat AV machine. The Media Mac is a 12-inch PowerBook with a whole bunch of speaker drive units and a big chunk of plywood bolted on. Gutted, one of its kind now stands by a kerbside in Auckland, New Zealand waiting to be filled with junk mail, wistfully remembering the glory days. Once upon a time the PowerMac G4 was one of the fastest computers ever made - Mac or PC. It's enough to make many Mac owners weep. Its fundamental beauty wasn't enough for its former lady owner, so she painted it black and stuck biohazard logos all over it. It's hard to believe looking at this mod that the Rev A iMac was Apple's saving grace when it arrived in May 2001. It took him a month to build and won him instant infamy and glory when he sold it on eBay. So he decided to mod it using his son's Lego collection instead. Daniele Procida from South Wales couldn't bear to throw away an old PowerBook 5300 that was brought into his Apple Juice consultancy.
So what do you do? If you're like Pownce's Lead Developer Leah Culver, you ask for companies to sponsor chunks of the MacBook Pro's case and then get their lovely logos laser-etched all over it. You can't afford to buy a new Mac laptop, but you really, really want one. We're particularly fond of the G4 Cube fish tank from Small Dog Electronics.
#2006 macbook pro mods how to#
You can see lots of great examples on the Apple Collection website along with detailed instructions on on how to build your own.
#2006 macbook pro mods install#
Fundamentally, you take an old Mac - old SEs, Classics and iMacs preferred - remove the guts and install a fish tank instead. It started out as a joke by Mac writer Andy Ihnatko, but the MacQuarium has taken on a life of its very own.