Is it legal to build your own Macintosh for your personal use?

[FerrisWorld]

yeah well

yeah well some other people seemed so interested in this thread that I thought they were actually considering it. I'm considering it myself. I wonder if you can get motorola stickers to put on the front of the case instead of intel ones. Or even a Mac OS X sticker instead of a windows one?

 

[firewire2001]

hey yo.. actually im considering something like this to my rev a powerbook g4 in a few months.. i mean, its kinda stupid.. but i think itd be neat to have my laptop in a case... plus it would be a challenge to get everything running..

prolly a whole lot easier than building a mac from scratch...

 

[AlphaTech]

Originally posted by firewire2001
hey yo.. actually im considering something like this to my rev a powerbook g4 in a few months.. i mean, its kinda stupid.. but i think itd be neat to have my laptop in a case... plus it would be a challenge to get everything running..

prolly a whole lot easier than building a mac from scratch...

Actually, it will most likely be a lot more difficult then you think. Before you even start, make sure you get a good set of Torx screwdrivers. Craftsman makes a very good set (I have some). I also hope that you don't have the AppleCare plan on that TiBook. If you do, you won't after that modification.

 

[FerrisWorld]

Here's what I would build:

G4 Logic Board from ebay, gigabit ethernet through quicksilver: $100-150

G4 800-1000 from Sonnet Technologies: $500-700

512MB Ram: $100-150

Cooler Master Aluminum case: $200

Sony DVD 16x40: $70

Sony CDRW 40x16x40: $80

80GB HD: $100

Internal IDE superdisk drive for floppies: $100

Sonnet ATA133 card: $100

Geforce or Radeon that costs: $150 when I build

I left out keyboard mouse and screen. Did I forget something else?

It beats a new iMac by a lot for the same price I think. But if everyone built one, all the motherboards on ebay would be gone, or get really expensive.