Posted on 09/19/2008 11:20:28 PM PDT by Swordmaker
At first sight, this looked like a perfect working reproduction of a Mac Pro made of Lego, so I was ready to call it the best Lego computer in the history of best Lego computers. Then, when I learnt that it houses one full PC running Mac OS X and a Mac Mini, I felt something happening, this tingling sensation, this turgidity that made me feel a bit dizzy.
And when I finally saw the Steve Jobs minifig standing there and took a closer look at it, nerdgasm finally ensued:
Made out of 2,588 Lego bricks, the Mac Pro was designed in Lego Digital Designer 2.0 for the MacMod Challenge 2008. The Hackintosh is a plain PC with a Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4Ghz CPU running Mac OS X, while the Mac Mini is a Core Duo 1.66Ghz. And the Steve Jobs minifig doesn't have any CPU, because he runs on mercurial power, tofu, and puppies' blood, like the real one.
And talking about the Steve Jobs minifig, remember we are still running our Go Miniman Go video contest, with the chance of winning priceless vintage Lego sets, shrink-wrapped, still in their boxes (if a new Lego Windmill can go for $1,700, imagine how many thousands a Galaxy Explorer or the original Yellow Castle will cost).
If you want to participate, check the contest rules here.
It's a Hackintosh...
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I can’t tell where the mini is or how you plug it in... but it’s cool. Wonder if it is the same size as a Mac Pro?
What are you running, btw, SM?
Me: PMG5 1.8/PB12”1.5GHZ/G4 CUBE 1.8 (upgrade)/PISMO 500mhz/iMAC G3 233/dead iBook G3 700MHZ.
Target disc mode off the Powerbook to my Powermac and into an ADC 23”.
Don’t ever want to part with that last rev. 12” powerbook. Love it. Small and great. Scared to go Mac Intel. PPC fan.
Love my 1gig 1st Gen. Shuffle (great sound card); use my 4th Gen iPod with iTalk for interviews/iPhone 1st gen 8gb is okay but need a new battery.
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You would think an Apple fan wouldn’t stoop to use a “Hackintosh”.
The Tinkertoy Computer - designed by Danny Hillis at MIT.
From the larger pictures at the link, it looks like the Mini is slung beneath the main body of the case. So it looks like an optional add-on.
Also, from the case, it looks like the Lego case is built around a standard beige-box PC — much easier than transferring all the components of a real Mac into another case. That would explain the choice of a Hackintosh.
My main Mac is a G5 PowerMac 1.6Ghz tower. with a 23" Apple Cinema Display.
My secondary Mac is a Dual G4 500MHz PowerPC Tower... connected to a Sceptre 17" LCD screen.
My main laptop is a first generation Intel MacBook Pro 2.3GHz 15".
Secondary laptop is a G3 12" Powerbook 800MHz, that my daughter has with her while going to college.
My cellular phone is a first generation 8GB iPhone.
At my main client's office, we are running an Intel MacPro 2.8Ghz Core 2 Duo Xeon, three Intel iMacs, four PPC iMacs (pre-iSight camera), two Intel MacBooks, two Mac Cube G4s doing service as MacOS 9.1 servers for some old databases.
A true Mac fan would never consider cannibalizing a Mac to make a Lego Mac... Ergo, it has to be a hackintosh!
;^)>
Lego Stephen Hawking
Lego Catmask
Lego Han Solo
I guess it’s still possible for Mac OS X to do a block read... :’)
Hey, Sword and other Macophiles, I gotta problem with one of my G5’s.
Its fans run constantly and the temperature monitor says the temp of B chips 1 and 2 (it’s a quad model) is 180 degrees, even though it’s not...I put my hand in back and there’s cool air blowing from it.
Plus, it reports the ambient air as being 107 degrees, when it’s actually 68, and it reports the air in one of the intakes as being -72!
As a result of this it goes into emergency sleep mode every five minutes.
Do I need a new sensor, new motherboard, new Mac?
Thanks for any help you can give me!
Ed
Hmmmmm. Could be a zapped sensor. I'd try a fresh install of OS X before I went to Apple. Good luck.
Hmm, a fresh install?
Thanks, Swordmaker, I’ll try it!
See ya’,
Ed
P.S. One strange thing I’m noting is there is a 40 degree difference between the first two chips and the second two chips...starnge!
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