Mac SE gutted, converted into toilet paper dispenser
By Darren Murph 
posted Mar 10th 2008 8:54AM
posted Mar 10th 2008 8:54AM
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And mac fanboy's cry out in pain and anguish upon opening engadget this morning.
Is there any other use for a Mac?
And everyone else scours eBay for Mac SE's so they can all claim they wipe their ass with a Mac! Gives a whole new meaning to the term,'Crapple'.
"Is there another use for a Mac?"
Well, computing, for one.
I wouldn't want anything Apple in my house, even if I did crap on it.
Woz must be rolling around in his grave right now.
Wouldn't that be painful to reach all the way down for toilet paper? I'm use to toilet paper being a bit reachable.
Dugg!
http://digg.com/apple/SWEET_Mac_SE_gutted_converted_into_toilet_paper_dispenser
Stop spamming.
That's a lot of bending just to get a piece of toilet paper. And eww, the leading piece of tp will be touching the floor.
First thing I thought. Now if he'd done it w/ a green bar printer (& could have it replicate the clickity-click sound while dispensing) you could put it on a stand.
Most people are too fat to bend over that far.
Thanks for letting us know how fat you are, Chad.
No, not fat. Just observing.
Fat or not, that's in an awkward position. Not only do you have to bend all the way down to the floor, you have to turn around to reach it. Way too much maneuvering and risk of falling over where there should be none.
Not Mac users, Chad.
Yeah that's because they are what, about 6% of the total world's population?
Chad, last word was that Apple computers make up 5% of computers worldwide. Not everyone owns a computer.
"Crapintosh?"
Hah. Man. I can see why that one's highest ranked. Get it? Crapintosh?!
Comedic brilliance.
God. I just wish someone would make an iCrap joke.
hold on...
Complete waste of time, it isn't even cool.
Its not supposed to be a fridgbe silly
Queue the "Macs are crap!" comments!
comment:
Macs are crap
but not every one of them I must admit
Those old Macs were crap... I had them in computer lab and they were always freezing. I mean people criticise Windows 95/98, but I remember being careful to save constantly my working in Typing Class. My Windows computer at home was much better.
Are there going to be refurbished versions available? ^__^
do you really want used toilet paper?
Sucks when you have to break out a Torx-15 wrench and case-cracker when you're holding the last sheet off the roll and not finished "taking care of business"
its the same as trying to upgrade ram on your iBook, You have to unscrew like 50 things and take stuff out to add some ram. lol
I think the best use for this would be if it's on it's back. The toilet paper is touching the floor... egh.
Wouldn't it be better if that was made out of a tower case that has a Windows logo on it, and getting rid of the 3.5" front cover for toilet paper storage. U can put several rolls in it at a time.
iCrap?
Everybody poops.
Why does it need a Windows logo for that?
How about iCrap Pro? Comes with a hardwipe?
that is one of the coolest things ever
I did this with my PC, but it did not look near as good.
Phew! Being sa Monday I thought Engadget might be struggling to find excuses to keep Apple articles on the front page, but this superb non story has come up trumps.
The fact that it doesn't even work as a toilet roll holder clearly doesn't matter because This Is News.
You've got that right!
nnnnnnnnnnnnnoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
blasphemy
iCrap, therefor I am.
Whatever pleases the end user!
I hate to disparage the Mac - I love Macs - but I can't resist: An anagram for M-a-c-i-n-t-o-s-h is Mac-On-****.
I hope you don't need a Torx driver to change the roll!!
I really can't understand the complaints about the paper touching the floor, you're about to wipe shit all over it anyway!
Why would anyone care about getting a bit of floor dust on their arse when its covered in shit?
Oh man, that had me rolling on the floor. Thank you for a sane point of view. Seriously, if they are that grossed out by the paper touching the floor, I seriously doubt their attentiveness to being clean would allow their floors to be dirty at all. As for the computer, I have one in the basement, summer project? Not that I would use it, but, i get bored I suppose.
This is old news.
I did, however, turn my Mac SE into a touch-screen Mac Mini, complete with TV.
...did you really?
Now, that sounds like a worthwhile project.
Got a link?
http://homepage.mac.com/behni/PhotoAlbum1.html
Considering many of the comments here, I'm beginning to wonder if some PC users are familiar with toilet paper.
Actually, some of the comments are pretty funny. But some are just mean spirited. How many PCs are so well thought of that people want to keep them around even after their usefulness is over? That PC fans don't get this is all the more telling.
You must be new here. Hating on Macs or Apple in general is sort of the raison d'etre for a lot of the people who comment on Engadget.
Wow, here's been on Engadget longer than the both of us....yet still hasn't come to that realization.
I guess some people are just late bloomers.
Eric, someday you, too, will ripen like an Apple....then people will gut you out and use you to dispense toilet paper.
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Eric, btw, I'm just joking around here; don't take any of this personally. Futhermore, no one will *really gut you out.
*Well, no one should. In fact, the odds are so remote, we'll just assume that no one will.
I think he should have widened the slot. Look far to easy to jam the paper the way it is. That is a messy arrangement. Far too easy to pee all over the Mac and it would be hard to clean.
For a Mac, that'd be acceptable.
LOL! That is hilarious!
This brought a smile to my face admist a day of crashing servers...
Stupid Mondays!!
Macintush?
Finally, a Mac that is at somewhat useful.
Now Apple can sell toilet paper for 20 dollars a row
Now Apple can sell toilet paper for 20 dollars a row
Okay, it just had to be said: It's the Apple "iPood"
And the new ones are used for the toilet?
Your blatant abuse of apostrophes notwithstanding (an apostrophe does not mean 'LOOK OUT, HERE COMES AN S'), somebody should probably tell you that MAC stands for Media Access Control. Mac is a proper name, it's short for Macintosh. But since you apparently didn't even know that much, I'm not sure why anybody would go to your site, you filthy spammer you.
my apologies for offending the grammar police. I hardly call plugging a free tech support website spamming.
If it had the Vista logo on the TP would it be considered already used?
What a terrible use for that wonderful computer, I would of used it for glider...68k Macs PWN!
Crapintosh.
Fitting end for that turd...
THis is the only worthwile mac out there actuly
"(an apostrophe does not mean 'LOOK OUT, HERE COMES AN S'), "
Good one.
"I hardly call plugging a free tech support website spamming."
And apparently you don't know what spamming is either. Going into a thread that has nothing to do with PC repair and telling people to go to your PC repair site definitely qualifies as spam. It's basically the same thing as me going to your PC repair site and posting "Oh by the way, go to my porn site. I hardly call plugging a porn site spamming."
I did this with my Apple Lisa once.... only to throw it away for a dispenser that was more convenient.
You say converted like it had other uses before.
This guy would really have something if he got the screen to work. It would be great to be able to continue watching sports or whatever while you're taking a dump. No more missing shows. Watch and wipe, all at the same time.
That's kinda gross sitting on the floor like that. So when you run outta toilet paper do you have to send the whole unit back to Apple to get the roll replaced?
duh, you take it to the "Genius" Bar to have it serviced by a snooty hipster douchebag.
don't be so upset, Zak is only upset because you mistakenly applied the apostrophe to "Mac," which, in his religion, is blasphemy.
and Jobs forgive you if you ever called the Macbook Air a "UMPC"
lol yea you would think I offended him on a very personal level. Sorry Zak. I hope we can still be friends.
Look I agree that posting a unrelated link is on the line but I certainly don't think it's spamming. It's not as if I simply posted a link without adding a decent comment beforehand. Relax there buddy life will go on, and feel free to not go to my site (link..oops better not) It appears you already know everything there is to know in life so its not for you anyway.
"$15 and a few hours later, out popped his new toilet paper dispenser"
I promise, I read that as "out *pooped*...".
I need more coffee...
I can't belive how white it is. My Mac SE has turned piss yellow after 18 years of uv exposure.