Mac mini Hacks & Mods for DummiesWiley Publishing, Inc.
by John Rizzo with Arnold Reinhold
ISBN-13: 978-0-471-74900-4
ISBN-10: 0-471-74900-1
386 Pages {PDF}
2006
Starting at $499, the diminutive Mac mini-2.5 inches tall, 6.5 inches wide, and 2.9 pounds-is expected to become Apple's bestselling computer, with projected shipments of 100,000 units a month.
This book offers several projects-some easy, some more challenging-to help people tweak, modify, and transform a Mac mini Modest modifications include creating a Mac mini home theater, an appliance controller, and a travel kit; other more complex (but very cool!) mods require wielding a soldering iron Offers detailed, illustrated step-by-step instructions-including how to open the Mac mini, keep track of pieces, and avoid damage-that enable even novice tinkerers to complete the projects.
If you ever stumble into some of the geekier discussion forums around the Internet, you may come across a community of people who enjoy modifying, or modding, their PCs.
They’re keen on showing off how they changed the look or function of their PC using cutting, painting, and soldering techniques, or by adding stuff — some of it pretty weird — that isn’t normally there.
There is a software equivalent of modding: hacking. This is programming changes in software to make it look different or to make it do something it wasn’t designed to.
There is also a third type of computer change: using your computer for a radically different purpose, hacking your perception of what a computer is, or modding your noncomputer possessions to fit the computer.
The mini was tailor-made for all three of these types of changes.
Oh sure, Apple wants you to think that the mini is perfect and complete the way it is.
But then, this isn’t the book that Apple wanted me to write.
About This BookMac mini Hacks & Mods For Dummies gives you several different approaches to information about modding. Some chapters give you specific projects to work on.
For these, I provide step-by-step directions on how to achieve a particular objective, such as upgrading the internal hard drive or modifying the mini’s outer casing.
I’ve peppered these sections with plenty of tips and tricks and lists of tools that you’ll need.
With some other mods, however, there are just too many options to give you a step-by-step procedure. For these, I present descriptions of what’s involved with a type of mod and show you the modding techniques for doing it.
You also find lists of what you’ll need to acquire and where to get it.
In some parts of this book, I try to provide you with ideas for further mods,or to help you come up with your own ideas.
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