Maxcelerate bootable dock and hub for mac Mini
People seem compelled to hack up the Mac mini. It's the little box that just begs to be souped up. To that end, Wiebetch introduces the Maxcelerate. It's an external drive enclosure and hub that sits beneath your mini and seriously beefs it up. Weibetech states you'll get a 30% increase in read/write times when you use the Macxelerate as your boot drive (vs. the standard mini drive), and that it stores up to 500GB of your stuff. Sounds like a digital video station waiting to happen.
Other features include: three USB 2.0 ports, three FireWire 400 ports, support for 3.5" IDE drives and daisy-chaining of USB 1.1/2.0 and/or FireWire 400 devices. The website says it requires Mac OS 9.x or better, which is odd, as the Mini won't boot into OS 9. Perhaps they meant classic? The Maxcelelrate cost ranges from $119.95US to $689.95, depending on how you have it configured.
[Via MacNN]
