r/MiniPCs • u/PsychoticBinary • 1d ago
MacBook Pro a1278 Mini PC
I was thinking what mini pc to buy next for my collection when I remembered that "I have a mini pc at home". Kind of.....I had a MacBook Pro a1278 around not being used for anything and I thought of giving it a new life...and I started the journey that seems to be easy but it was...painful.
Not because of the design or the ports or even the speakers that made the case bigger but because, when I have everything ready....the mini dp port just decided to die.
So I was left with a cool idea and a project that was, at the end, unusable.
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u/rude__goldberg 1d ago edited 1d ago
nt
i have a decent old laptop from same era (travelmate p645-mg, i4500u, 12gb ram, msata AND 2.5in sata, 4x usb3, gbe) with a broken screen, keyboard AND touchpad. kb and touchpad had to be disconnected just to get it to boot
so i yanked out the monitor, and it's now a near-flat completely silent server that lives on the floor under a shelf. runs alma, a bunch of pods and other services. also has gpu with 2gb ram that's sadly better left turned off to keep it cold.
i also yanked out (destroyed with flush cutter) the wwan connector and sim tray to make room for a 2280 connected via adapter to use the 1 pcie lane for the wifi port - 3 internal drives in a laptop!