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skipjakk

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Not sure if this would be possible, but given the cube's logic board seems similar in size to the Macbooks, wondering if it would be possible to drop a macbook logic board in and run everything off the ports? (video, keyboard mouse). Any ideas?
 
Not sure if this would be possible, but given the cube's logic board seems similar in size to the Macbooks, wondering if it would be possible to drop a macbook logic board in and run everything off the ports? (video, keyboard mouse). Any ideas?

If the motherboards are indeed the same size I don't see why this wouldn't be possible. You might have to do a little fancy work to get all the ports set up right but, conceptually, I can't think of a reason it would be impossible (that's assuming the same size motherboard). The question is why would you want to do it?
 
Why make a macbook Cube? Because you can drive the new Cinema LED Display from it and because there is no update to the Mac Mini (yet or never)?

I think it is a cool idea.
 
That would be a pretty cool case mod! I hope that you do it and take lots of detailed pictures too. If you are handy with a soldering gun, moving ports around shouldn't be that difficult to make it look factory - on the outside at least.
 
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