p2pnet - rss feed: ‘I turned my MAC into a PC’
Hell hath no fury like a MAC owner scorned.
Overclocker Andy X got a $3K, dual-processor MAC for Christmas. But he’d wanted a Dell (and anway, he didn’t have any Apple programs and didn’t feel like waiting for them). “I thought about selling it, but my parents would be upset with me,” he said. “After all, this was a very expensive gift and it meant a lot to them to give to me.”
So he did what any sensible person would do - he gutted the MAC and turned it into a PC. And he published a long and detailed description of how he did what he did on the Overclockers’ site here, ie:
“First I removed the fans, ductwork and the board,” he said. “I had to disassemble part of the case - it’s held together with star head screws. I have NEVER seen a finer made case.
“The G5 uses a total of 7 Delta fans and 2 Delta blowers. I really wanted to keep them in use, but I could not figure out the wiring pattern - 4 black wires, I could not figure out the polarity. I think Apple had these custom made for them.
“Before installing the board, I had to cut out a section of the case for the ATX panel …
“… It’s too bad Apple decided to mount the board on the opposite side, because you can only fit a Micro ATX board due to the location of the slots. I considered cutting out the entire back and doing a total swap with my old Dell PC, but I think it would have ruined the over all look to the case.”
And so on.
He concluded with:
“It’s a good thing my parents don’t know anything about computers, because I’m sure they would be really angry if they knew what I did. I have to say that I’m happy - I can keep on using XP.
“The board is a Biostar Micro ATX, with a 2200 Athlon XP with an Adaptec 29160 SCSI controller and two 36 GB Atlas 10K V hard drives. I am stuck using the onboard video because there is no AGP slot. I had no money for a SATA controller and quite honestly, I swear by SCSI (the G5 comes with SATA drives). In the future, I want to get an Athlon 64 board and CPU with AGP support for a decent video card.
“I use it mostly for Internet, ripping music/DVDs and pissing off my friend.
“I put all the parts from the G5 into a box and gave it to my friend. He was rather happy. I think he is going to try to install them into his G3 - I hope he’s successful.”
However, the wrath of a woman scorned is nothing to the wrath of a MAC user who sees a G5 (or, presumably, any other MAC) disembowelled to have its contents replaced with (shudder) PCÂ parts !!!!!
“I have been feeling a little guilty about causing so many people out there to have nightmares, depression and sickness …” says Andy on the site. “The reaction of people word wide has blown me away. I never intended for such a thing to happen.
“My in box went from 1% to 100% in 2 days (1300 messages). So many people were pointing out what a stupid thing to do, so many people were telling me of feeling sick, some even said they cried. I felt bad for those people. It was amusing to read things like ‘I should be hung by my testicles and lit on fire’ or the constant reference to ‘Taking a Porsche and replacing the engine with a KIAs”. Most people cried out in horror and carefully pointed out the error of doing such a silly thing.”
Shame, Andy, Shame!
But relax.
It was all a joke.
“I got a free G5 shell from a buddy of mine and pulled a prank on a Mac loving friend,” Andy confessed.
“He got so upset. I wrote up a little story, my imagination and warped sense of humor kicked in. I sent it to OC.com just to see the reaction. I honestly didn’t think it was going to be posted. I cannot believe how fast or how far it has spread on the internet. There are an amazing number of people who are emotionally attached to inanimate objects such as computers. Mac fans seem to be much worse that I ever expected.”
And what does he really think of G5s?
They’re, “amazing” and, “I would never dream of really doing that ;)”
February 5th, 2004 at 9:22 pm
YOU MUST BE SOME KIND OF RETARD!