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Intel in a Cube ??
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Join Date: May 2000
Location: Livingston, NJ
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Just wondering if there are people odd enough to have thought of doing this and maybe have something to offer.
Really.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Aiken, South Carolina, USA
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I recall seeing a company offering a mod to replace the G4 with an Intel CPU. Don't know if OS X could be hacked to run on it, though.
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Germany
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3 MacMinis (WITH case) fit perfectly within a Cube.. some metalwork, frames&screws, and it should be done... ok, no slide-out feature, and the bottom looks... "different"...
if you get a Cube-housing, easy-does-it... ;-)
(yepp, not the answer you wanted to hear, SCRN!!)
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Anson, TX
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i'm pretty sure replacing a g4 with an intel chip is next to impossible...you'd have to but a whole new logic board in at the least...
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Join Date: Jan 2006
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Originally Posted by hookem2oo7
i'm pretty sure replacing a g4 with an intel chip is next to impossible...you'd have to but a whole new logic board in at the least...
Not to mention all the other hardware - most (If not all) would have to be replaced to be compatible with the new board.
I suppose a really ambitious (or slightly insane) individual could pull the contents out of an Intel Mini and figure out a way to mount them in a Cube enclosure, though.
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Join Date: May 2000
Location: Livingston, NJ
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Thanks, all, for your input. I guess I'll just keep looking wiatfully at my Cube.
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: UK
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Somebody did release an x86 based cube conversion. Can't find it now though. I don't thonk it had a new enough chip o run the hacked version of OS X x86.
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Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: UK
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Originally Posted by Waragainstsleep
Somebody did release an x86 based cube conversion. Can't find it now though. I don't thonk it had a new enough chip o run the hacked version of OS X x86.
Cube PC
This is a conversion done to fit a VIA mini ITX motherboard (they are about the same size as a Mac mini motherboard) into a G4 cube. Its a PC and not a Mac, and VIA isn't Intel, but I think it would be possible to put a Mac mini in a cube (hey, put a 3.5" hard drive in there!!)
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It'll be much easier if you just comply.
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