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For any nostalgic Mac users out there. Here is my newest Mod. I took an old Mac Plus back, designed the front bezel in 3D and had it printed. Put a brand new M1 mac Mini inside. Added a TeNizo 9" 1920x1200 HDR IPS monitor, a USB 3 hub, and a tinkerBOY M0110 Keyboard To USB Converter.

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More info at: https://www.ajdesign.com/mac/

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1 minute ago, iosidapple said:

 

For any nostalgic Mac users out there. Here is my newest Mod. I took an old Mac Plus back, designed the front bezel in 3D and had it printed. Put a brand new M1 mac Mini inside. Added a TeNizo 9" 1920x1200 HDR IPS monitor, a USB 3 hub, and a tinkerBOY M0110 Keyboard To USB Converter.

 

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More info at: https://www.ajdesign.com/mac/

That is so amazing.

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Pretty cool, I would fill the inside space with a couple external HDDs, maybe some speakers as well.

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This is really cool! The second version looks neat as well! How has the cooling been affected for the Mac mini? Since it's the M1 version I'd assume it still performs very well. 

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I've been testing it with some heavy rendering of very complex scenes in C4D and it's cool to the touch. You can hear the fan during rendering only if you put your ear directly by the exhaust and it's completely quiet in the room.

 

I am super impressed with this little machine. My 2013 mac Pro's fan spin up quite bit under the same rendering load. This Mac with 8GB of ram outperforms my Mac Pro trashcan with 64GB of ram in every real life test I throw at it, not just synthetic benchmarks.

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I saw you post this over at https://www.mac-forums.com/threads/m1-macintosh-128k-mod.362566/ and https://www.avforums.com/threads/m1-macintosh-128k-mod.2346001/, but here is where I have an account so I'll chime in here.

I think you would have a field day with a MacEffects case. There are a few classic Mac files floating around, but there's a 3D printed Mac Classic repro that comes in sizes 8" and 10" with a working screen pre-installed sold on AliE.

A couple Japanese modders have the done the same thing as you have but with the older Intel Mac Mini in the TAM. I would love you forever if you printed out a Navi from Serial Experiments Lain which was obviously based on the TAM. Actually if you 3D printed the CD door for the TAM which is prone to breakage you'd make a lot of friends among its collectors.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Lain/comments/b14spg/i_tried_to_model_the_first_navi/
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/chibi-navi-serial-experiments-lain-1d1ac2fccbec428a8e59bb516f400de3

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/aGo82R

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