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Test your carpenter skills - Home built All-In-One Computer

Discussion in 'General Discussions' started by Dennis L, 2007/11/27.

  1. 2007/11/27
    Dennis L Lifetime Subscription

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    Feel the itch to get dusty, hear the whisk of a circular saw - brush up on your carpenter skills - AND - build a All-in-One 19" LCD computer. Do it all in the same task. Be sure to check out / view all the pics. :D
    $363 19-inch dual-core all-in-one LCD PC
    Don't forget to tell wife, I mean Santa to bring you a nice, completely set up wood working shop - so you can be nice and build that new computer for your wife. This computer design is NOT recommended in termite country. :)
     
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    Doesn't Apple make something like that?
     
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    I almost did similar for my wife a few weeks ago. I got a new mb w/ cpu for 60 bucks (celeron 1.8) which came w/ the cpu & heatsink already installed. I had all the other needed hardware already except a case. I contemplated building a wood case out of spare hardwood in my shop but got a good deal on a new case w/ ps for 30 bucks. The 30 bucks was a lot less than my time & labor!
     
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    I too have been meaning to build something different. I had a pair of JBL speakers from the mid 70's made out of nice Oak that I almost used...Have also been thinking about recycling this old 486 Compaq. Darn tower is about three feet tall..Could cram all sorts of stuff in there:eek:
     
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    I always enjoy seeing things like this and give the guy kudo's for his enthusiasm. However, being a woodworking hobbyist, I'm pretty unimpressed with what he did compared to what could have been done. Still admire his ingenuity and efforts though.

    ;)
     
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    This reminded me of a great site for some reason!

    http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/psu-pc/

    This is one of my favourites... a complete PC built inside a PSU!

    There's toasters, Playstations, even an old Commodore 64 converted to mini PC's. Class!

    Andy.
     
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    Nice link Andy. Thanks.

    ;)
     
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    mc21repsol

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    I absolutely love the R2D2 PC! I have one of those phones, but I couldn't ever bring myself to butcher it to build a PC into it!

    Also, this one brings new meanings to "an XP box "! :D

    Andy.
     
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    That is genius!!!!. It is the only dual-boot system I've seen that chooses which OS to boot depending on which way up it is. Boot XP, turn upside-down and it boots Linux. Splendid.

    The line "There is a definite lack of industry standardisation in software distribution boxes." made me laugh :D. You come up with a splendidly crazy idea, and then get exasperated because others haven't designed their systems to suit - excellent.
     
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