build a mac?

[jefhatfield]

has anybody taken old mac parts and/or clone parts and built a mac?

this is common with pcs, but i have never met anybody do this with a mac...but i have seen it once on www.woz.org somewhere on the site

 

[iGav]

Never....... if you'd seen my soldering you'd understand why.......

 

[eyelikeart]

I've seen "Franken-Macs" which consist of various pieces from a few compiled into one...

but nothing that involved soldering and really modifying the board or anything...

just doesn't seem worth the effort and $$$...

PC parts are relatively cheap....Mac parts definitely are not...

 

[iGav]

I know what you mean eye, taking that screw driver, soldering iron and self Faith to a TiBook requires balls the hardness of diamonds......

 

[GeeYouEye]

Originally posted by eyelikeart

PC parts are relatively cheap....Mac parts definitely are not...

Very true. Go to a website of one of Motrola's distributers, and you'll find that, in small quantities, nothing above a 233MHz G3 is even for sale (not to mention the fact that very few companies sell any Moto processor above an '030), and even that is ~ $350. Hell, the MC68040 is $200.

 

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by iGAV
I know what you mean eye, taking that screw driver, soldering iron and self Faith to a TiBook requires balls the hardness of diamonds......

he he he....I'd go for "Brass Balls" personally...but I like that comparrison...

I'm not about to touch anything like that with my TiBook...I can deal with minimal things....but screw that!

 

[Mr. Anderson]

Originally posted by eyelikeart


he he he....I'd go for "Brass Balls" personally...but I like that comparrison...

I'm not about to touch anything like that with my TiBook...I can deal with minimal things....but screw that!

I'm with you there, eye. The only thing I've done to my TiPB is lift up the keypad to see what was undernieth. I promptly put it right back.....

 

[AlphaTech]

Originally posted by dukestreet


I'm with you there, eye. The only thing I've done to my TiPB is lift up the keypad to see what was undernieth. I promptly put it right back.....

Guess I have titanium ones then , since I have gone about as far as possible without nuking the warranty on my TiBooks (yes on both of them). There is a reason I have 'No Fear' on my helmet (flanking a nice white Apple logo).

If I could get a hold of the motherboard and such from a fairly recent Mac, I would build one up. I have thought about getting a new Gx (after either MWNY or MWSF) and if I don't like the case, get one that I do and make it work. I would probably get one from CoolerMaster (virtually silent fans, and large enough to slip many drives into) and build a FrankenMac, or an ÜberMac system. Set up a four drive RAID (ATA133 of course) with 160GB drives and keep on moving from there.

Now where's Egor???