On Wednesday, January 12, 2005, at 04:46 PM, chris wrote:
Someone else
kindly commented on the fact that it would be a real mod or hack to use
the CRT of the iMac.
It should be fairly trivial to hack a Mac Mini to use a tray load iMac
CRT. The CRT is essentially a unit of its own (the power runs thru the
main PS, but the connection is independant). It would really be nothing
more than using an RGB to VGA adaptor to connect the Mac Mini to the tray
load CRT.
However, this anticipates that you have a tray load that powers up enough
to give power to the CRT. If you remove the logic board, I don't think
there is a direct way to hack the power supply to feed the CRT. It passes
thru part of the logic board assembly.
So to fully hide a Mac Mini into a tray load shell would take a little
more work. Although, honestly, with how small it is, I'd almost expect
that you can dismantle the Mac Mini, install its DVD Drive into position
for the tray load, and then just float the logic board on top of the tray
load logic board. Run the power cable for the Mac Mini in thru the back,
and with short extensions, reroute all other connections to the side in
place of the tray load.
Conceptually, it shouldn't be too difficult (alas, I lack a Mac Mini to try it out... if someone wants to purchase me one, I'd be happy to make it happen... but I get to keep the finished product!)
-chris <http://www.mythtech.net>
All I would hope for is to connect the Mac mini to the slot loading iMac with a cable and use the G3 as a 'quick and dirty' monitor. This would just require an adapter plug?
The Mac mini is too good looking to hide inside, but I can see how its size would suggest it as an internal "mod".
BTW, salon.com has a good article today on the Mac mini and Apple's future.
Donald
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