Kevin Rose builds a "PC Mini"

[Johnny]

Did anyone follow a couple of the links on his site ?? Looks like there is a "Scam" to get a free mac mini now lol .. I can't believe how stupid some people are to fall for that stuff ..

 

[SPeedY_B]

They're not scams, the company "gratis" is quite legitimate and does actually send out what they say they will, the only problem being that Person1 needs to refer X amount of people, therefore even if everyone on earth participated, we'll run out of people somewhere down the line, and some people will not get their goods. It's not a scam, it's just that pyramid schemes are a ûûûûe system

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[Johnny]

They're not scams, the company "gratis" is quite legitimate and does actually send out what they say they will, the only problem being that Person1 needs to refer X amount of people, therefore even if everyone on earth participated, we'll run out of people somewhere down the line, and some people will not get their goods. It's not a scam, it's just that pyramid schemes are a ûûûûe system

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Yeah that is true lol ... I might try that out then. I'll have to think about it for a while though ...

 

[X-Istence]

No SuperDrive? Whats that?

Yes, being a mac zealot ill say "What the ûûûû, you destroyed it, nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo"

Neat little project, feel bad for that Mac mini being abused.

 

[NetRyder]

I believe he just didn't have room. It's questionable if the system would even run (or if it did for how long). If anything it shows the effort Apple put into designing the mini.

Why would it not run? It just doesn't have an internal optical drive.
As noted by a few of us earlier in the thread, people have built many, many different types of Mini-ITX systems in the past, some of which have been built into cases that are as small or smaller than the Mac Mini and they all worked fine.

 

[~bk]

Pretty cool.

 

[Xie]

Why would it not run? It just doesn't have an internal optical drive.
As noted by a few of us earlier in the thread, people have built many, many different types of Mini-ITX systems in the past, some of which have been built into cases that are as small or smaller than the Mac Mini and they all worked fine.

Going from memory hear but I believe the HD was placed ontop of the heatsink that was cut to make room. So it may or may not have some serious heat issues/HD issues.

 

[Xie]

It is a neat project, one of these days after I get a job I plan on buildinga mini pc to install in my car.

This is different then what your talking about but I think either the day of or the day after the Mac mini was announced a local(ish) company announced plans to start installing mini's in cars.

*edit* - quick google search found it .. here