Technically Speaking

How much PC power can be put into the shell of a Mac Mini? Here is another example of someone tinkering with a perfectly good machine but this time there seems to be a valid reason behind it. Kevin Rose, of The Screen Savers fame, has taken it upon himself to do an extreme modification of the Mac Mini to see how much PC power per square inch can be put in its case. Of course, the first step would be to gut the Mac Mini and stuff it full of PC components. Using thee parts list below Kevin walks use through the process.

Parts needed:

Nano-ITX Motherboard
Laptop IDE HD 2.5” (any capacity)
40 to 44pin IDE converter
Motherboard risers
Sears Tap kit

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Now I said that this was done for the sake of technology, but Kevin has not given us the benchmarks that answer the initial question; “How much PC power can be put into the shell of a Mac Mini?” I’m confident that we will see the results shortly, we will just have to wait patiently.

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