I built a pint-sized Macintosh

ido

At the end he write the setup cost him $20, but the display alone sells for $50 (from the amazon link he provided). I'm assuming he had a bunch of the components already, but that's not really a fair cost comparison.

ZeroGravitas

I saw someone did the same but with a cool bit of bent plastic for the casing that evoked the original casing in a minimal way. Edit, this isn't the one I read but looks like the idea is older than I thought as someone was doing it in 2015: https://www.randomorbit.co.uk/?p=904

yuppiepuppie

IMHO, a Macintosh/Apple product is equally about the hardware that delivers the software. I dont want to belittle the authors work, but I would call this "building custom hardware for a pico-Mac project."

tokyobreakfast

I'd love to see this shoved into a Mac SE or Classic chassis with a replacement 9" LCD to match. Jeff, if you're reading this, make it happen lol. The old Macs really were the perfect form factor for a compact desktop computer—you saw them in every bedroom in every 1990s sitcom. Are there any good options these days that are smaller than a 24" all-in-one?

aa-jv

This is nice, but I yearn for the day I can run it on my watch. ;)

vardump

I wonder why he didn't use a RP2350, it costs practically same as the older RP2040. That way it could have 450 kB or so system RAM, enough to play around with some old productivity software.

HardwareLust

Very cool! This just needs a little more horsepower so I can emulate my first Mac (IIvx).

TomMasz

There's a really small form-factor Mac clone based on the pico-mac on a Pi RP2040. Only available in kit form after Apple complained. https://blog.1bitrainbow.com/pico-mac-nano/