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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Barcelona, SPAIN
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Hi all.
How would one go about getting an empty Mac mini casing? I would like to take the innards of my Firewire enclosure and fit them in there with a hard drive and keep below or on top of my Mac mini. Apple here in Iceland tells me they can not provide such a box. Waiting another 6 months and search on Ebay seems the next best option?
Or even better, anyone know of an enclosure that is of the same form factor as the mini?
Thx,
Tobbi
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Get a mini, take it apart, sell the parts on eBay.
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Originally posted by andreas_g4:
Get a mini, take it apart, sell the parts on eBay.
I had actually thought about that. But with the prices here being a bit higher (about 802 USD for the low end Mac mini - exchange rate is not helping in that direction) I'd come out with a lot less money I guess. Maybe buying one in the US would be ideal.
thx,
tobbi
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Originally posted by tobster:
I had actually thought about that. But with the prices here being a bit higher (about 802 USD for the low end Mac mini - exchange rate is not helping in that direction) I'd come out with a lot less money I guess. Maybe buying one in the US would be ideal.
thx,
tobbi
Let some friend from outside get a mini, take it apart, sell the parts on eBay
 Sorry, could't help…
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What about a making one?
I haven't gotten my mini yet, or looked too hard at one, so I don't know how hard it would be to get it to look sufficiently good, but i doubt it would be that hard. Or as expensive as your other options.
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There is almost no chance that someone won't make an external firewire enclosure that matches the mini. Just wait a couple of months and I'm sure you'll be able to buy one for less than $100.
--sam
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Years ago, when the iMac CRT was still fresh (around the time of the flavors), my local CompUSA had a bunch of iMac shells just sitting there, presumably to spruce up the section. That anecdote has very little to do with the mini, except that both Macs were cheap. I assume that you'll see mini cases on sale on eBay soon enough.
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Get a mini, take it apart, put the innards in a G4 cube case with an extra hard drive etc.
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Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Oct 1999
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Originally posted by Big Mac:
Years ago, when the iMac CRT was still fresh (around the time of the flavors), my local CompUSA had a bunch of iMac shells just sitting there, presumably to spruce up the section. That anecdote has very little to do with the mini, except that both Macs were cheap. I assume that you'll see mini cases on sale on eBay soon enough.
Apple used to provide resellers with dummy macs, which weren't just empty shells -- they had the whole chassis, actual circtuit boards (but no components on them!), and a piece of plastic for a CRT. They never sold those.
tooki
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