Xbox Hackintosh casemod

This is a Xbox Hackintosh. I had an old and broken xbox so i decided to put a pc in to it and install hackintosh to it. This is a "guide" which gives you the basic idea how to stuff all in there and what parts to use... This is my first instructables and my main language is not english so this might be a little grumby but here it goes...

Step 1:

First of all your going to need a Xbox to put the pc into. Just open all of the screws from the bottom of the xbox and pull the top up from the console. Once the top is off, pull out the stuff from the inside including the metal frame.

Comments

[80$man]

This is good, well done! Spotted the Jack Daniels [Jack Dagniels!] is the background!

[mkarvonen]

must have!

[mkarvonen]

Comming this week: How to make a tablet pc out of old laptop!!!

[dude300]

Not sure if it had allready been addressed but it is snow leopard, not snow leobard but i can see that in the instructable there are both spellings so i assume you are aware,

i congratulate you on your effort converting the language, and with few spelling mistakes, i know if i was to try typing in finnish i would fail and it would not make sense

[Treknology]

Best use I've seen for an Xbox yet.

[Treknology]

In response to everyone who has replied to my comment (below), I would not do this to an xbox, because I would not want to own one. The only way it would come into my possession would be part of a bulk transfer and even if it worked, I would convert it into ANYTHING else, even a front door step.

[avngrboy]

maybe im missing something, but how is this the best use for the xbox? Isnt it gutting out the xbox and putting in a pc to run the mac OS. Have you seen the stuff where you can turn the xbox into a Media Center?

[coolwithpie]

Yeah My friends uncle is a computer guru and he put media center and LAN networking on the xbox. He also put a bunch of games (THAT HE PAID FOR) on it.

[mkarvonen]

you dont have to be a guru to do that kind of simple thing. been there done that.

[coolwithpie]

With the original electronics?

[mkarvonen]

Yes. also moding that console takes about hour. and for bonus you can run linux on it. so its not a big trick about it. you just have to know what you are doing.

[coolwithpie]

Sorry Im not trashing on your instructable its really cool i just think the xbox is a good media center device

[mkarvonen]

and it sucks

[The nerdling]

well, that's mean

[Treknology]

I'm bagging the xbox, not the 'ible.

[The nerdling]

ok

[avngrboy]

Well, i think you might have been doing it wrong. The xbox can have a digital library of music, pictures, and movies. You can also add emulators to any old system including MAME. If you dont like the xbox why use the case?

[mkarvonen]

i mean the xbox sucks at being a media center device. there are 1000000 better ways to do the media center better. So in this case Xbox sucks but as a game console is good. would rather use nes if had one but it burned so...

[coolwithpie]

ITS AN AMAZING MEDIA CENTER DEVICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! see my reply to avngrboy.

[furrysalamander]

Nooo, how could you ever do this to an xbox, dying, can't, breath, beautiful, xbox, goodbye, cruel, world.

[sinrockets]

my xbox i did a few months all the buttons on the front work and ive done a bit of led work too!:D usb in the 3 and 4 player instead of controller ports, running windows xp.

[dgleeson]

how well does Mac OSX hold up on those specs? is it fully functional? or are some elements missing?

i notice on your picture you dont have the dock... are all the visual themes working? like windows max/min and all that?

[canucksgirl]

He may have had the dock hidden, which can be done through system preferences. I have mine setup that way and it expands when you mouse over the area. (I use a lot of apps and don't like seeing them all the time.) ;)

[mkarvonen]

i have the dock in use but you cant see it in the picture. (light reflection in the screen)

[mkarvonen]

everything is working perfectly. the only thing was USB that wasnt working perfectly. but i got it to work with trying difrend setup.

[lyxDeslic]

bump :)

[leggomylegoeggo]

I'm fairly certain that comments (on this site) don't need bumping.

[Kryptonite]

You'd be surprised how often amazing comments just disappear!

[lyxDeslic]

I wasn't saying "bump" in the intention of getting this instructable more hits. In all honestly, I don't fully understand the term and I've only seen it used once.

With that being said, I was trying to say

"I am wondering the same thing that dgleeson mentioned in the previous comment about the specs"

in what I previously thought was the shortest term possible.

Thanks for your kind replies anyway!... :-P

[Kryptonite]

Hehe, sorry about that :P

Bump, on Instructables, is used to bring up that comment thread to the top, and also brings up community topics for others to see. Commenting with anything does the same thing, but saying "bump" shows that you did it for the soul purpose of 'bumping' it up for others to see.

[wakojako]

It looks great (if of course you like xboxes) but may I sugest you mention "casemod" in the title, you'll get better ratings that way.

[mkarvonen]

thanks for the reply :D i think that i might chance that title :)

[mkarvonen]

do you have something else in mind than xbox??? :D

[wakojako]

No I was just saying that if you don't like xboxes, you won't like this ible. As far as future ideas go; ikea hack, table (wiimote multitouch?), make a net-top, wifi pineapple on steroids?

[klau1]

I remember seeing something like this on youtube. It's a great video work log.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TggHtINGIyc

[jak of all trades 822]

Ok, I don't know next to near jack-didlly-squat about making computers and all that jazz... Is this something that a totally noobie can do?? Or is there something that I should try to do first before I try this?? By the way I like the Xbox Idea, it's exceedingly creative, I also just like the whole idea of the project. Is is like a Mao with more capabilities or something else?? Thanks for making and posting this my friend. :D

[acoleman3]

well....i can tell you for assembling the computer components you'll want to get and study a book on laptop pc repair and upgrades. the book should help along that front.

[jfunk1]

so its an OSXbox?

[Chris01]

How is this a Hackingtosh??? The term was coined around 1990 or a bit earlier in a series in Computer Shopper (when it was tabloid sized). They were sticking compact Mac motherboards into terminals I believe. There was also the Colby Mac that appeared in radio electronics. I'M ALL CONFUZZLED!

[mkarvonen]

wat? what is your point?