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Putting together a mac...
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Vancouver, Canada
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Hi,
I have put together dozens of PCs and I think putting together a mac would be kinda fun. But I have no clue where to get the components: motherboard, cpu etc.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Last edited by docholiday; Dec 15, 2002 at 02:27 AM.
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I have "put together" many mac in my day but I bought good macs in bad cases and put them in ATX towers. I have not seen any hardware vendors (or is it -er) like in the x86 world but your best bet is to check eBay for some bad apples with good cores.
Before Super and Combo drives my mac mods sold great on ebay because you could have more than one drive in there. but to get it to fit is the key....cut the case and make a plastic or metal copy of the back of a powermac (ports) and then screw that on the case and it all fits. --- I had it down to a great little production.
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Thanx a lot for the advice, imma check out ebay rite away to see what i can find (at a reasonable price  ).
Also, i have heard that apple has made it hard to mod its newer boards, is that true? If yes, should I go for an earlier preQS G4 motherboard?
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You can always (though I don't guarantee this will work) just buy an amiga motherboard and run mac-on-linux on it.
No emulation, it just acts like vmware.
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