Sacrilege! PC in a Mac Mini


MacBidouille via Slashdot pointed us to this blog of Kevin Rose's. We're sure his intentions are noble, but he should be excommunicated for something. We'll work on that one.

What has Kevin done? you may ask. Well, he's stuffed a VIA motherboard into a Mac Mini casing. Plus a heatsink and an adapter to make a laptop hard drive fit (the VIA Nano-ITX mobo doesn't support 2.5" HD interfaces).

And, presumably, some form of Linux or (gasp) Windows, we guess.

Of course, Apple (and us) have the last laugh. Not being designed by highly-paid hardware engineers means that it's impossible to fit a CD/DVD drive in the thing, so you're limited to an external. In an admirably defensive, this-is-good-enough sort of way, Kevin bravely defends this anomaly by arguing that the VIA mobo can boot from external devices anyway.

Still, it does have 2 DIMM slots, we acknowledge grudgingly. But we're not sure what 'integrated audio/video' means. It's a 1GHz CPU, but no idea how that benches.

There are pics of this particular mutilation. We'd like to know how much it cost though.