Color Classic G4 Cube upgrade? Anyone?

[mraroid]

Hi...

I found this web site:

http://www.mac512.com/ccpmg4.htm

Showing a Color Classic G4 cube mod.  It looked really sloppy to me, not to mention that I would have to gut a color classic to do this.

Has anyone here done the G4 cube color classic upgrade?

If not, can anyone point me to web sites that talk about this upgrade?

I would like to see other cube options....

Thanks

jack

 

[TheWhiteFalcon]

I'd like if people stopped butchering Cubes, personally. There aren't that many of them.

 

[ScutBoy]

I'd like if people stopped butchering Cubes, personally. There aren't that many of them.

Yeah - seems like a waste of a Cube and a CC, if you ask me.

Not the most elegant mod, either, but I shouldn't throw stones since I don't know how much better I could do

 

[EvilCapitalist]

I personally would go for a G4 Mac Mini plus a Color Classic with more dead than just the motherboard if you were going for something that could still do 68K/PPC (otherwise a newer Mac Mini).  If you had one with a bum analog board that caps couldn't fix, in addition to the usual dead hard drives and motherboards needing caps I wouldn't feel as bad seeing the mash up.

 

[archer174]

Yeah, I think a mac mini would be perfect for this. I think you could even manage to do it without hacking the case because the board is low profile enough. Power/video could be taken from the existing backplane, and a solid state drive could be laid to the side or on top of the board. 

 

[mraroid]

It would be great if I could use the CRT in the color classic.... I love that screen.... I have no idea if the mac mini would drive the CRT....  The best mode would be if I did not have to hack up the insides of my CC....

jack

 

[sstaylor]

Yeah, I'd have to go with a mini in a regular Classic, Plus, or SE case with an LCD.  Seems a real shame to wreck *two* of the rarer and more desirable vintage macs.