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14:58 - My heart's cockles are warmed
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/3034177.stm
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It's the LegoMac!
Daniele Procida could not bear to see a dead Mac thrown away - so he reconstructed it using Lego bricks pinched from his sons.
Rather than bin the Powerbook laptop, he refurbished it using hundreds of colourful pieces, set on mottled artificial green grass.
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"It took a long time to come up with a design that met both aesthetic and technical requirements," Daniele added.
"Once I finally had it built, my girlfriend used it to write her doctoral thesis on feminist metaphysics."
Many computer enthusiasts design their own base units, but a complete re-build from a different material is a rarity, underlining typical Mac eccentricity.
The build took a month - time devoted every evening after work - and proved a perfect gift for Daniele's partner Carol.
It is a fully working 100MHz, 32Mb multi-coloured bundle of bricks running MacOS 8.1.
I don't know about you, but I'd really hate for the computing world to be devoid of stories like this. That's what would happen without Apple.
For instance, the Bizarro World version of this story is, of course, this one.
UPDATE: Stephen informs me that this LegoMac is not a unique idea, but rather the latest in a long line of Macs that have crawled like upwardly mobile hermit crabs into cases made of popsicle sticks, old radios, Mars rovers, floppy-disk organizers, and (yes) Legos. Ahh, the joy.
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