First let me say, that none of what I’m about to walk you through could have been possible without Tonymacx86.  His site provided comprehensive shopping lists and how to make all the non Mac-conventional hardware work with Mac software.  I’d also like to say that, again, none of this would have been possible without Steve [...]

Have you read the biography of Steve Jobs?  I’m not done (or even close), but the first few chapters got me itchin’ to build some electronics.  I’ve always enjoyed tinkering with computers and was becoming anxious to build one from scratch. I’ve toyed inside Apple’s famous machines in the past doing: I replaced a dying hard drive [...]