mega Posted April 9, 2008 Share Posted April 9, 2008 I'm considering buying a mac mini, 2ghz model but I'm not sure if I really want to run mac os xanyone built a cheap mac mini lately? There used to be a DYI thread with known & easy to source cheap components that were 100 % working, but I cant find it now I would need a minimum of dual core 2ghz, and a small footprint. I currently run ubuntu and am going more and more towards mac products, and integration seems better, this machine will do email (thunderbird) browsing, photo edit/upload, and itunes/iphone duty I've got some leftover hardware to piece one together.. 7600gt 6600 core2 duo 2 gigs of ram usb sound card, I guess it's a card, it's compatable with osx, I used it when I had a hackintosh last year I could buy a board & small case, I love the mini size/profile I need to find is 2 things motherboard that's compatible with leopard small case & power supplys does anyone have a suggestion for an ultra compatible board? If this works out well I would go to a quad core cpu, so I think I need to spend the money on a badaxe2 or a blood iron ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyler durden's bile duct Posted April 9, 2008 Share Posted April 9, 2008 i just built a pretty decent machine for 450 bucks... runs well and everything works with very little patching... the details are in my sig... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mega Posted April 9, 2008 Author Share Posted April 9, 2008 that shuttle setup would be perfect I think is the board in the SD30G2 Plus all native? I cant tell who makes the board that's in it I really want to stick with a board that's fully EFI/Vanilla kernel working and requires minimal patching, maybe sound but that's it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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