I picked up my new Motorola V3 Razor after my v60i (that had served my quite well over the past few years) was stolen. Anyway, for those who have never seen one in packaging of the phone, manuals, etc, it is actually an anodized brush metal (similar to the powermac G5).
After staring at the packing for a for about 10 minutes i realised something:
You could cram a mac mini in this and use the clear plastic window on the front as the drive bay similar to those in discmans. I've posted two photos of the packaging.
Any suggestions on how to get the drive working?
That packaging looks useful for a few different hacks - what are the dimensions?
i hate to be a buzz kill, but the case looks to be too thin for all the Mac Mini components. This sounds like an awsome hack, and i hope you can prove me wrong, but based on the pics, im not sure how your going to get everything in there.
I think it would be pretty cool to put a mini-itx pc in there, then kvm the mini and it to one display. That would be sweet. Otherwise do a cd drive window and mount the drive under the window in the case.
You couls also fill in that big round hole somehow and toss a couple of HDs in there as a RAID array, with a FireWire/IDE bridge, so you'd have a FireWire RAID array.
The board for the Mini-ITX is larger than the entire Mac Mini, and the CPU heatsink requires about 2 inches to have room for the heatsink and to have room for CPU fan airflow.
I'll post the dimensions of the packaging and higher quality photos when i get home tonght.
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The dimensions of the case is a follows:
WxHxD in CM: 26 x 17 x 16. The clear circle on the right is slightly larger than a normal CD. So i think it might be possible to shoehorn a mac mini inside it...
...Time to get my hands on a Mini!
Mini-itx is 6.75in square. Not all have to have a fan. You're right though it won't quite fit, a nano-itx will though, they are 4.75ish square.
That case is a horrific waste of aluminum.