Nice little Mac-mini hack
Well i am posting here some info on this nice little mini hack that a friend of mine recently built. Not that powerful but yet enough (GMA950) for sort of movie/music center, surfing, emails, documents and all the other regular stuff, even…
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- @milanca Published 2009-02-09
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Well i am posting here some info on this nice little mini hack that a friend of mine recently built. Not that powerful but yet enough (GMA950) for sort of movie/music center, surfing, emails, documents and all the other regular stuff, even some games. With nice mini case could be a perfect Leopard box. I really loved it and i am also planning to build one (board with atom330, 2x1.6GHz is around 90eur in europe, newegg ~80usd)
Intel D945GCLF2 mini-ITX. More info here:
http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/motherboards/D945… ↗
10.5.6, vanilla working fine. Tested with boot-132 cd, really minimal post installations required. Even integrated tv-out is working nicely at 1024x768. 2Gigs of 667 RAM is maximum supported but i just guess it's pretty enough for the purpose of this box. Over at ebay.de with preinstalled 2 gigs of ram could be found for around 108eur. All thats left is a HDD and it is ready to rock'n'roll. For people with such needs, watching movies, playing music with itunes or internet stuff and for those who like cute n' little, pretty much noiseless, box it could be a very nice solution. I will post some more info, and pics, when my friend assembles it completely (with new mini desktop case).
These are some original pics taken by my friend, the owner:
This is the case planed for it. For my version, i would try to go with even smaller case if possible to find
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Welcome aboard buddy. It is a beautiful project, really it is.
LawlessPPC, yes, if only it had PCIe. But it will be good this way, having in mind its purpose. GMA950 should do the trick. There is one pci slot for maybe wi-fi adapter, so i guess entire board could be fully used.
I would really like this Psile nexus, or some similar itx case for it
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If only they'd bring out a version with a pci-e slot
the things that stopped me from using one was lack of optical audio and no dvi or hdmi
Hi milanca tnx for posting my new project to this wonderfull forum.As my friend here sad my plan is to build hak mini pc for running RETAIL Leopard 10.5.5 or 10.5.6 for home use(reading e-mail,whatching dvd/divx films,listening mp3 and other music).I was searching the web and I found this little mobo (17cm x 17cm) but problems started when I searching for a small case and this was the smallest that I found, maybe milanca found something better.I am going to update this project when other parts arrived if I dont have time to post here my buddy milanca is going to keep this threar up to date.Tnx for support and for invate me to this forum btw this is my first post here...
Big regards from Serbia...
yeah nice case but expensive. Laptop slot drives are quite cheap now
will they tv out do component if so then it can do 1920x1080 on tv
@Milanca that is great case for this mobo.I will send you a nice sticker of apple for it.keep a good work...
Sources & Contributor Provenance (4 credited usernames · Thread #2094)
| Username | Dossier Contribution | Dispatches | Active Window |
|---|---|---|---|
| @LawlessPPC | Core Contributor | 3 | 2009-02-09 |
| @milanca | Primary Author | 2 | 2009-02-09 |
| @tesla017 | Contributor | 2 | 2009-02-09 |
| @Ianxxx | Contributor | 1 | 2009-02-09 |