I have the Cube and Mac Mini laid bare and I think that I could fit two Mac Mini’s in an old Cube case. Two whole computers in a cute little package. This is just an idea. Spitballing.
Take the Mac Mini’s out of their case and they fit in a Cube pretty well. The Cube has lots of extra room in the DVD bay and the big heat dissipating fins in the core are not necessary. Dito for the full size 3.5″ hard drive and video card/logic board. Face one Mini in the DVD slot and the other where the logic board is. In between provide a 2 computer KVM. The bottom of the Cube has to be cut heavily to let all the ports out. The second Mac Mini does not need it’s DVD player, so that makes it even smaller. It would be great if there were a way for both Mini to share a single hard drive. This makes the second Mini unbelievably tiny.
Either the KVM or VNC could control the other Mini. Which leads into why. This seems to be to be a good background processing machine, like transcoding or running a game VM. The first Mini could be a media center or web machine, where the second one is a game machine. The biggest attraction is the attention it would get. I think a lot of people would like to see two tiny computers inside the case of the previous generation of tiny computers.
Cost is annoying and the biggest obstacle. Say, $200 for a Cube or replacement case then $400-$600 times 2 for the Mac Minis. So, $1400 without cutting and assembling. You can have a good MacBook for that cost. Much faster and better video than the Minis
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