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Sep 19, 2004, 11:45 AM
 
Ok, I picked up a cube case... it's got the airport board and the power board...

what should I do with it (I'm thinking about trying to buy the parts off ebay, but that seems rather expensive). one idea I've heard would be to get a MicroATX board and make it in to a bastard PC... but that's kind of galling.

So, any ideas?

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Sep 20, 2004, 11:44 AM
 
I would buy a parts of ebay, but as you said that could be quite $$ and time consuming, I would suggest fitting an older mac into the cube but I wouldn't know which model would be small enough to do so?

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Sep 20, 2004, 11:57 AM
 
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Sep 20, 2004, 03:37 PM
 
sounds like it would make a damned nifty external multidrive enclosure.
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Sep 20, 2004, 07:45 PM
 
Originally posted by Skip Breakfast:
sounds like it would make a damned nifty external multidrive enclosure.
I was tooling around with it and my firewire harddrive last night... it is now a firewire hard drive... I'm thinking of shoving a slow-loading burner in the case too...

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Sep 21, 2004, 11:33 AM
 
Yeah. Put a slot-loader in there.

You could probably fit a mini-ITX power supply in there, as well as a USB hub. That would rock.
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