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Hackintosh Mocks Mac Pro with Trash Can Case

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The new Mac Pro’s case makes it look like a trash can, so a German’s PC enthusiast with a sense of humor decided to build a Hackintosh – a user-assembled computer made to run OS X – and put it inside an actual trash can. Tonymacx86 forum member Dschijn shared some of the computer’s photos.

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The computer is inside a modified Lunar, a plastic trash can sold by Authentics. The similarity ends at that joke however, because this Hackintosh has modest specs. It has a Gigabyte Z87 Mini-ITX motherboard, an Intel Core i3 Haswell CPU, a Radeon 7750 GPU and an unspecified SSD and HDD. I’m doubtful the real Mac Pro has anything to worry about.

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Creativity on an epic scale. Check out Dschijn’s thread on Tonymacx86 to see more of the casemod.

[via 9to5 Mac]

The PC Briefcasemod: Desktop Luggable

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Redditor yoshiwars wanted a portable gaming machine but he didn’t want to spend a fortune on a high-end laptop. So he stuffed a desktop computer’s parts into a briefcase. Looking at it, you wouldn’t mistake it for anything else. But I think the mouse pad balances out the junkyard chic.

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Inside the briefcase is a 15″monitor, a Gigabyte motherboard, a Core i5 2500K CPU, 16GB RAM, an XFX Radeon HD 6670 and two solid state drives. One drive has a 30GB capacity and holds yoshiwars’ Windows 7 setup and the other is a 90GB drive that runs Mountain Lion. That’s right; as if a briefcase computer wasn’t impressive enough, yoshiwars also made it a dual-booting Hackintosh.

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You know yoshiwars, if all you wanted was to play Uplink, you could’ve gotten an iPad. Seriously though good job. With the mouse pad.

[via Reddit via Computerworld]

Macintosh Portable Hackintosh: Mac OS X on a PC Dressed as a Mac

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The Macintosh Portable was Apple’s first battery-powered portable computer. Released in 1989, it weighed 16lbs., had a 16MHz CPU, a black and white screen and lead-acid batteries, hence its nickname, “Macintosh Luggable.” People had to pay $6,500 for the curse of owning this darned thing. Which is why I find this hack to be so funny.

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Yes, that Macintosh Portable has a color screen and is running Mac OS X. Patrick Blampied used the hardware from his old Toshiba NB100 netbook to make this modern miracle possible. In other words, it’s a Hackintosh. Blampied also painstakingly rewired and soldered a Dell keyboard to a USB controller for this project. The classic Apple mouse has an optical mouse in its guts, though it still only has one button. Finally, in place of the lead-acid batteries Blampied put the battery from a cordless drill.

The only thing this computer has over Apple’s current lineup is that sweet rainbow logo. Blampied said he’ll upload more pictures and information about his hack on his blog.

[via TUAW]