[PHOTOS] This Mac Pro Hackintosh Replica Built From An Actual Trashcan Is Fantastic
The "Trash Pro" is nowhere near as powerful as the actual Mac Pro but it's otherwise the spitting image, and we think that's really awesome for a DIY project.
By Sadho Ram — 30 Mar 2014, 01:28 PM — Updated about 10 years ago
The new Mac Pro, as powerful and gorgeous looking as it is, it looks like, let’s face it, a trashcan
Don't believe us? This nifty trash can called the Authentics 1200614 Bad-Abfalleimer LUNAR sold by Amazon Germany, looks exactly like the new Mac Pro
And because of the strong resemblance, a German user has created a Mac Pro "Hackintosh" replica using the Authentics LUNAR
The replica is nowhere near as powerful as Apple's new Mac Pro. Nevertheless the result is spectacular.
"Hackintosh" built out of standard PC components and stuffed all of them into a bathroom trashcan with more than a passing resemblance to the actual Mac Pro
Image via funkyspacemonkey.comThe build begins with a Gigabyte z78n Wi-Fi mini-ITX motherboard mounted to a couple of stands and a ribbon cable that allows the AMD Radeon HD 7750 graphics card to be mounted parallel to the main board
Fitting everything inside the trashcan required a fair number of custom parts.
Image via arstechnica.netAdditional stands hold the device's two 2.5-inch drives (one SSD and one HDD, possibly in a Fusion Drive configuration).
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The DIY version has at least four fans spinning inside, rather than the single fan used in the real thing. Here's a detailed look at the hand crafted bottom intake:
The whole thing is about 26cm high and 18cm in diameter, not far from the 25.1cm height and 16.7cm diameter of the actual Mac Pro
It uses a dual-core Haswell Core i3 chip instead of a four-, six-, eight-, or 12-core Ivy Bridge Xeon; it uses one standard gaming GPU instead of two FirePro workstation GPUs; it lacks the Mac Pro's dual Ethernet ports and six Thunderbolt 2.0 ports; and it uses standard SATA storage and consumer DDR3 rather than the PCI express storage or 1866MHz ECC DDR3 of the Mac Pro.
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Still, for a DIY project, the "Trash Pro" is a fun curiosity and an impressive bit of engineering in its own right
And as the final result shows, the replica isn't anywhere near as powerful as the real thing, but it certainly looks the part
