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MacTV

Should I mod it?

  • Yes!

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  • No! It's too rare, try to restore it to stock.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Put it in a normal 5xx beige case for the rest of its life.

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defor

You can make up something and come back to it late
Staff member
Finally grabbed myself a MacTV to disect and add to my collection of 5xx based systems, and wow is it unique in circuit design. Anyhow, there's a large chip missing from the drive bezel, and the rest of the case has wierd wear patterns (personally I didn't get it to collect), so the question I pose, as I do plan to keep it one way or another, try to restore it properly, or get gutsy and mod it into somehting far more glamorous?

 

Quadraman

Well-known member
What I would do, is try to find another one that doesn't run but has a nicer case. Until a nice original case comes along, though, I'd move the guts to an empty 5xx case if I had one laying around.

 

The Macster

Well-known member
As I asked in the other topic on Mac TVs, is it possible to paint a normal AIO LC case black and use the nameplates and innards of the Mac TV to make a perfect replica, or are the two cases different in ways apart from colour? Either way, there's only a few thousand of these around so I wouldn't mess around with it too much!

 

defor

You can make up something and come back to it late
Staff member
well.. basically the case parts for the mactv are molded in black, not painted, for some reason mine has wierd lightish marks on it--- gave it a bath last night with heavy scrubbing and still cant get the majority off...

While I could move it to a 5xx case and paint it black, some issues liek the nameplate being part of the drive bezel which is missing a little corner make this a bad idea. right now, I'm contemplating looking into finding plastic finishing agents to fix the spotted marks which make no sense, then tracking down a front drive bezel in time to correct the crack.

I'd really love to find a second mactv motherboard though as well... have a really nifty project brewing around in the head and otherwise i'd have to swap this one back and forth between the mactv and the modded box...

good thoughts so far...

 

Maniacintosh

Well-known member
I tried to paint my Performa 575 black ---uuughh bad idea. It looked awful, so awful I didn't regret throwing it out (after removing the HD and mobo, of course).

 

joshc

Well-known member
Whoever votes Yes! or Put it in a normal 5xx beige case for the rest of its life. is going to get squashed by a Mac TV, by the looks of it. :)

 

Applemeister

Well-known member
You could also put it in a black 5500 or 5400 case. But, then again, you could always get a TV card for either of those machines and it'd be like a Mac TV, except 8 times faster ;)

 

Bunsen

Admin-Witchfinder-General
Vinyl dye - it soaks into the plastic rather than sitting on the surface. And the nameplate should pop off if it's like the ones on other Macs - a pinhole through the bezel behind it, a pin, a push.

 
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