MACMINI 2018 MOD

[Juan torres]

I just have the idea of converting a Mac mini 2018 out of its shell. 

It would be awesome to get rid of the heating issues with https://noctua.at/en/nh-c14s because it has a "C" built heatsink because the Ram is very inclined forward the Processor's socket. 

 

I'm just very curious to build something out of the shell of a Mac mini to convert it into a full fledge desktop :)

 

Thank you

[rapidkillerx]

it's very mini (lol), you may have trouble doing anything as i doubt a motherboard could fit very easily.

[Juan torres]

lol I know its mini...:) but I would like to transform it into something inside this https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079DFXR5J/ref=sspa_dk_detail_3?psc=1&pd_rd_i=B079DFXR5J&pd_rd_w=4zIOh&pf_rd_p=a64be657-55f3-4b6a-91aa-17a31a8febb4&pd_rd_wg=nkut3&pf_rd_r=ZDB1CM9W3YY5REVEH16E&pd_rd_r=7a50e993-643a-4d51-8f24-c098652890e1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUE3OFJXS0hRQVI5M1UmZW5jcnlwdGVkSWQ9QTA1OTI4MDAyMUJZSDAwUExETlNCJmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTA5ODU2MTAyVkw5NFZQM0E3T1Amd2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9kZXRhaWxfdGhlbWF0aWMmYWN0aW9uPWNsaWNrUmVkaXJlY3QmZG9Ob3RMb2dDbGljaz10cnVl

 

just taking aways the logic board out into a better place...it sounds crazy but I love to be creative

[Guest]

I think that the beauty of that computer comes from it's form factor. If you were going to spend the money on making a custom case and getting a cooler + loosing the high resell value of an Apple product by modifying it, it would be far more economical to sell it and build a different computer. 

[caincha]

If you absolutely want to do this sort of thing instead of building a Hackintosh I'd say buy a 'empty'/faulty G4 Cube on eBay and figure it out a way to install the MacMini inside it. Pretty sure if you look online someone probably have done it before so you'll have a template to do your own.

I'd rather buy a good PowerMac G5 case and built a Hackintosh (properly, not the shitty one they did on LTT video) but to each its own

Best of luck