How to roll your own Mac for under 240$ – Mac almakdan vazgecdim :) By admin 12 Ocak 2009 at 20:37 and have No Comments

MSI is a company known mostly for its PC components. They recently
jumped into the netbook bandwagon with just about every other major pc
manufacturer. Their Eee like machine, the MSI Wind, ended up being an
extremely popular little laptop. Along with the laptop they made a not
too well known desktop with roughly the same dimensions as a ream of
printer paper.

The MSI Wind PC
is a great computer; I have three of them. It comes with a 1.6GHz Intel
atom CPU, two SATA connections for 3.5″ and 5.25″ bays and 6 USB ports.
You can pick a barebones one, requiring ram, a hard drive and possibly
DVD drive, for $140 or so..

What you need:


  • MSI Wind PC
    .This can be found on newegg for $140.
  • Hard Drive. If you don’t have a spare one laying around, the Wind
    has an internal CF card slot that may also be possible to use. I have
    not tried this myself and it would most like be ridiculously slow. I
    suggest Seagate, as they have yet to fail me.
    You can pick one up at Newegg for about 50$ with shipping.

    for 50$
  • RAM. Again if you don’t have it laying around, the Wind takes 200-pin DDR2 notebook memory, up to 2GB. You can
    get this at Newegg
    for about 20$.
  • Optical Drive: I assume you already have a sata DVD drive or an usb
    one, the Wind does not have a pata/ide connection so you can’t use an
    older drive. You can also get one of these at Newegg for about 20$,
    however it isn’t required once you have the OS installed.
  • Speaking of which, you need the OS. It can be found

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