Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/08/26/tiny-custom-imac.html
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Hmmm… this looks familiar
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This is a really cool idea.
Cutting through those port connectors really triggered me, though… Has dude never heard of unsoldering? I mean, the USB ports are one thing, since he would need to replace them with single height (or even better, remote them with a modded leftover USB case header) USB ports, but leaving half a Ethernet port on your board that you cut with a Dremel? That isn’t asking for problems with having randomly terminated signal, power, shield, and ground lines… at least cut the port off all the way…
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I would have gone the desoldering route too, but top marks to Michael for lateral thinking and a bit of moxie - chop it up with a dremel! I’m amazed it works - I wouldn’t have had the courage to carve up a RasPi 4 like that, they aren’t that cheap - at least in Australia.
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I just checked the Australian Raspi reseller… Nargh, you all are getting hit with stupid expensive tariffs or something (like shipping or license fees); badly. The Zeros aren’t too bad ($5US/$7AUD vs $9.50AUD, W $10US/$14AUD vs $20 AUD), but the 3s are ridiculous stupid ($20US/$28AUD for a 3B+ vs $72AUD) and a 4gb 4B+ is $50US/$69AUD vs $102AUD. (Comparing against in-store cash and carry prices at Microcenter) (Yes, I happen to have a store that carries them 20 minutes from my house… 
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I’d offer to transship for you, but personal shipping to AU from the US is crazy; you’d probably pay just as much in shipping as the price difference. (I have a friend who moved to Australia a few years ago; he still has a few boxes of stuff in my house awaiting an empty return suitcase…)
(Edited to clarify: something is driving up the price, my guess is not the local Pi distributor.)
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“I’m a Mac person so god forbid you have a wire coming out of your computer.”
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