Comments on: hack your new mac

By: Vixy fan

Vixy fan — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:18:26 +0000

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By: jim martinen

jim martinen — Wed, 23 May 2007 20:23:19 +0000

Hmmm… a Mac Mini media player… if I were to take out the CD drive, this might be a good, feasible idea. I’d also want a small screen, though.

By: george r.

george r. — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 22:08:34 +0000

well y bought a tripod speaker system but when I tryed to conect it to the electicity I made a mistake and conected it in the audio hole, I also had my ipod shuffle connected, so It burned.. do you know how to repair it?

By: jonty

jonty — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 02:13:50 +0000

does anyone know where i can get a tiff or jep or a full working model of that sppinning rainbow that appears when your computer is locking up jontyboylees@hotmail.com

By: h0mi

h0mi — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 01:32:55 +0000

“The ram is upgradable also.”
I just want to know what restrictions on ram the mac mini has… can I use any pc2700 memory or is it finicky.

By: David Ray

David Ray — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 23:51:29 +0000

Without cutting off your power connector, the safest thing to do would be to use a cheapy 100W inverter, and some 12V lead acid batteries. (7) AH batteries should give you more than 2 hours. I know that the power brick can deliver up to 85 watts but I doubt I am drawing near that current. might do that for fun as I have the batteries and inverter. It would be interesting to see how long it will run so I have a realistic idea as to how much current my mac mini really draws.

Then you Just stuff eveything in a case. I think the case you can buy for the Elecraft k-2 would probably be ideal for this.

http://WWW.elecraft.com

The case is slick and close to mac mini in side.

By: David Ray

David Ray — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 23:40:01 +0000

I was thinking of the thermocouple as additional solid state cooling. I do have the temperature monitoring applications. The 60 gig 7200 rpm travelstar does run hotter than the original had disk. If cpu temperatures after overclock have have risen, I could use a thermocouple on the cpu for additional cooling, however, I have not seen this as being an issue with the overclock.

By: mike-n-go

mike-n-go — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 11:59:16 +0000

wow the macmini is cool

By: mike-n-go

mike-n-go — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:03:35 +0000

http://solutionspheres.blogspot.com/
“Solution Spheres”

By: mike-n-go

mike-n-go — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 11:27:34 +0000

oh the reason i poasted 4 of the above is becaus it would not let me when i clicked on add you comments
it is about 250 words that i started out with i hope this will be fixed
what is the max character limit?
on thes forms?

By: mike-n-go

mike-n-go — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 11:20:47 +0000

“31. Posted Mar 14, 2005, 11:21 AM ET by David Ray
Mini mac hacks.”
“I’ll have to look into changing the bus speed, and adding a thermocouple as well.”
what would the thermocouple do?
if moniter the temp of say(this it it on my ibook):the cpu hd, Graphics Processor Die, Battery, Power Supply/Memory Bottomside
go here
http://www.bresink.com/osx/TemperatureMonitor.html

i sure hop i did not forget any thing

By: mike-n-go

mike-n-go — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 11:19:50 +0000

if you want to see the knock off go to
http://news.com.com/Intel+shows+off+Mac+Mini-like+concept+PC/2100-1041_3-5596629.html?tag=mac.nn

if you want to se some a/v stuff(cars perhaps) go to
http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1514147#post1514147
http://www.avforums.com/forums/search.php?searchid=1403239

i found most of these by google-ing these phrases
here are some examples to get the ideas flowing:

mac mini media player

external battery pack for the shuffle

integrated shuffle or mac mini

By: mike-n-go

mike-n-go — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 11:19:00 +0000

if you want to have gps go for somthing like this
http://www.gpsnavx.com/

if you want to to turn your Mac mini into a home media server (maby for tv) go to to get some links to media server freeware
http://www.macmerc.com/articles/Freeloader_Friday_Download_of_the_Week/264

if you want to make

By: mike-n-go

mike-n-go — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 11:17:16 +0000

to learn how to over clock the mac mini go to
http://www.lbodnar.dsl.pipex.com/macmini/
for only a little de-soldering you can get a 14%
boost (1.25 ghz

By: David Ray

David Ray — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 19:20:06 +0000

Mini mac hacks.

I did the 1.5 GHZ overclock.

I put in a 60 Gig Travelstar 7200 RPM drive because it is the fastest
laptop hardisk on the market with the most cache. I wish there was an 80 gig version.

Next, I will relocate all my usb stuff inside the mac mini case, and then will go with overclocked pc3200 400 mhz memory which can run at pc4200 speeds 533mhz.

I would also like to get one of thos slick 7″ touch screen monitors for the system.

I’ll have to look into changing the bus speed, and adding a thermocouple as well.