I have an 800Mhz flat panel imac that i am going to make into a headless server.I was wondering if there is anything cool i could do to the case or any mods to make it run faster. I looked around Mac Mod but flat panel imac mods don't seem to be too popular.

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Draconis

well, its a fairly new machine and not very easily modable. Although, you could always house it in a new case or you could pain the case like this one...

http://www.macmod.com/content/view/19/2/

But, I think that it would look cool just by itself, headless. Maybe you can put a lighting effect under it like the powermate.

Well in the few hours before your post i thought up some pretty cool ideas.

1. Move power button to where the arm currently is.
2. Since i'm taking out the CD drive for a second HDD the CD cover(oblong piece of plastic that flips down when the CD comes out) will have 3 indicator lights. One for each HDD and another one to show its hooked up to the network.

I like your idea about the powermate. I was thinking maybe EL wire in between the logic board and plastic air vents or is that not bright enough?

Also I thought of a name. The Mac Orb. Is that too cheezy?

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Draconis

sounds bad ass to me

Love the idea with the power button and the drive and netowork activity led indicators. As for the powermate look, I was thinking something like a strip of plexiglass molded around the base so that it is just about an inch high, then mount lights under there. You could sand the plexiglass as well so that it has a hazy look. I duno if plexiglass is exactly the right material, but, you get the idea.

That does sound phat. Is the lcd broken? You can overclock those imacs too. Maybe some
slight cooling mods would be in order though.
-maestro

There is a problem with the LCD but, its not worth it to fix the problem. If it ever needs a display the external connecion still works fine and I'm going to put VNC on it. I looked into overclocking. the only problem would be extra cooling while still being virtually silent as this imac would run 24/7.

Post edited by: Draconis, at: 2005/08/08 00:06

Sorry i skipped your post oojacoboo. I was kinda tired last night .The only problem i see with that is how to light it all around without lights on the outside. If i cut out a hole in the center of the plexi and put in EL wire or LED's would that work?

Post edited by: Draconis, at: 2005/08/08 14:56

actually yea, that might work best, to cut a hole in the plexiglass, using the thickest plexiglass you can find, and then cut the outside as well in a circle just a little larger. Maybe you could even do two of these and glue them together to make it even thicker. Then just take the light strip and go all the way around underneath the imac on the inside of the circular strips. Add a little sandpaper to the plexiglass to scuff it up a tad and then you should have something that looks alot like a powermate. Giving you the orb effect

The point it to raise the base of the imac off the ground just a little, with a hollow middle for the lighting.

Post edited by: oojacoboo, at: 2005/08/08 15:27

Ok, i'll do that. Where would be a place to buy a pwrbook or G5 tower pwr button? I know of ebay i was just wondering if there was another place.

actually you might give some apple repair shops a call. They might be able to hook you up. I would give techrestore a call and tell them you are working on a mod for the mod challenge, if indeed you are, and they might be able to help.