could have just crammed everything into the G5 case and called it a day but he decided to spend the time to make it look supremely presentable. If you’re unfamiliar with Hackintosh, it’s a term used to describe a project that gets Mac OS to run on non-Apple hardware. Instead, it was gutted to turn it into a Macintosh-cased Hackintosh. Not surprisingly, the machine didn’t boot up and ended up sitting around the apartment for a few years.įast forward from 2012 to present day and decided it was time to do something with that G5. Being the good friend that he is, he made his roomy carry the 50 lb behemoth back to their apartment. It’s not often that you find a Macintosh dumped out on the side of the road. was one of the lucky individuals that did. Meanwhile, regular readers will remember that this isn’t the first Apple related cheese grating episode we’ve shown you.Ĭontinue reading “Cheese Grater Now Grates Cheese” → Posted in computer hacks Tagged 3d printed, apple, cheese, g5, grater, mac, power mac, raspberry pi

Perhaps the next build should be something that uses the blue smoke for a productive purpose.

It’s a functional build that elaborates on an in-joke in the hardware community, which we can all appreciate. The Pi 4 also functions as a working desktop computer within the old G5 case, complete with custom-built I/O ports for HDMI that integrate with the case to make it look like original hardware.įunnily enough, the Pi 4 has more computing power and memory than Apple’s flagship Mac at the time, and consumes about 100 times less power. The cheese grating drive is automatically started when it detects cheese via a Raspberry Pi. Ungrated cheese is placed in the CD drive slot where it passes through a series of 3D printed gears which grate the cheese into small chunks. Despite not originally being able to grate cheese though, this Power Mac actually does grate cheese. The high quality of the drilled aluminum design lived on into the Intel era and gained more popularity, but the case was still colloquially known as the “Cheese Grater”. They were still popular in some areas but didn’t have the wide appeal they have now. This was a time before Apple was using Intel processors, so compatibility issues were high and Apple’s number of users was pretty low.

If you’ve been using Apple products since before they were cool, you might remember the Power Mac G5.

Mac pro in power mac g5 case