http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/ Engadget Comments for Mac Pro Mini mod is almost the midrange tower Mac you've always wanted http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/Mar 13th 2008 9:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/Mar 13th 2008 10:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/
No, he swapped the cpu.]]>Mar 13th 2008 11:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/Mar 14th 2008 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/Mar 13th 2008 9:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/Mar 13th 2008 9:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/
What's next, the macbook pro air mini modular awesomness mini? :P]]>Mar 13th 2008 9:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/Mar 13th 2008 9:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/
Plan on starting up a CNC or waterjet and cutting out your own case and implementing the mod yourself?]]>Mar 13th 2008 10:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/
Of course I would not take the credit, or make them for profit. But it would be an awesome case mod of the moder made the directions available.]]>Mar 13th 2008 10:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/Mar 14th 2008 4:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/
So you are saying because he used plastic, that means I would not be able to use sheet metal and he would not have any CAD files?

Material in this case does not matter at all, at long as you know how to use them.
And anyone making any project should use CAD, just to make sure you don't do anything wrong. It is a very very common thing for someone to CAD a plastic part.. like a mold for example, to make sure it is made correctly. ( there are programs in most cad programs that deal with only plastic.

And as for the first part of your assumption on materials.. lets take a look at the first 4 words in my post.. "I searched the website". By reading that, it is pretty obvious that I looked the website. ]]>Mar 14th 2008 7:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/
I recently upgraded to Leopard (if you wanna call it an upgrade) and half the programs I used stopped working properly such as Remote Desktop and Workgroup Server.

Apparently with Leopard Server, RD and WS have been combined into a single program...its not likely that updates will be available for these older programs since Apple doesn't mind leaving you hangin'.

The case for my computer is the taller case and I have to admit, its really cool. I wouldn't mind having a case of this quality for a PC though...especially one that can run CRYSIS.]]>Mar 13th 2008 9:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/
::nod nod::

Oh look, a birdie!]]>Mar 13th 2008 10:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/
No one in my family ever has or ever will purchase an apple product. All machines are running Ubuntu. And /that/ is why I'm telling you instead of the dude that writes these engadget posts. Do I mind? Meh. Apple does something innovative quite often. This isn't that, so I really don't care. Sometimes the comments manage to be interesting anyway.]]>Mar 14th 2008 2:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/Mar 14th 2008 5:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/
Wow, that was a whole lot talk for a whole lot of nothing.

If you don't like Apple, don't read it. If you do read it for the comments, don't be surprised that there would be pro-Apple comments...

Nobody cares that your family has a SysAdmin, which seems a little odd for you to admit to anyway, and it didn't have any bearing on ANY part of discussions.]]>Mar 14th 2008 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/
What a lame article.

Great mod, lame write-up.]]>Mar 13th 2008 9:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/Mar 13th 2008 9:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/Mar 13th 2008 9:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/It has one port on the front.
see here: http://hanabusa1.blog29.fc2.com/blog-entry-79.html
or: http://blog29.fc2.com/h/hanabusa1/file/Mac-Pro-Mini-005.jpg
or just look at the pic in the post.]]>Mar 14th 2008 7:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/Mar 13th 2008 9:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/
i don't understand....]]>Mar 13th 2008 10:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/Mar 13th 2008 10:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/]]>Mar 13th 2008 11:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/Mar 13th 2008 11:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/
Fuck the RIAA]]>Mar 13th 2008 11:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/Mar 14th 2008 12:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/Mar 16th 2008 8:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/Mar 13th 2008 10:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/so that's only like, 8 inches tall, total?]]>Mar 13th 2008 10:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/
It's more then just sticking a mini in a new case. He'd have to get a new power supply for the HDD or jump off the mini's power some how.

Timmay]]>Mar 14th 2008 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/Mar 13th 2008 10:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/Mar 13th 2008 10:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/Mar 13th 2008 10:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/
:P]]>Mar 13th 2008 10:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/
You can configure the Mac Pro with a single quad-core processor for $2299. Still a good chunk of change? You bet. But that is the actual starting price for a Mac Pro.]]>Mar 13th 2008 10:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/Mar 13th 2008 10:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/Mar 13th 2008 10:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/Mar 13th 2008 10:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/Mar 13th 2008 10:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/





Sorry i couldn't resist. Just finished a Scrubs marathon. :)]]>Mar 14th 2008 3:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/Mar 14th 2008 8:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/Mar 13th 2008 10:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/
just sayin'.]]>Mar 14th 2008 4:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/Mar 13th 2008 11:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/
Don't give those stuck up control freaks any more of your money than you have to to feel good about yourself.]]>Mar 14th 2008 2:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/What did Apple do to you to get your panties in a knot? No matter what you buy, some of your money goes to a big stuck-up corporation, be it Apple, Microsoft, or Dell! They're all bad in some way, so how can you hate one while supporting another?

As for buying an Ubuntu Dell... Dell offers sales on some configurations of Windows PCs for less than the Ubuntu equivalent. Dell is charging MORE for a FREE operating system, and pocketing your money!]]>Mar 14th 2008 8:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/Mar 13th 2008 11:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/mac-mini-pro-mod-is-almost-the-midrange-tower-mac-youve-always/Mar 13th 2008 11:10PM