Under the hood of this Xbox 360 case is the motherboard from an old Apple PowerBook G4. Modder Phil Herlihy is an avid Mac and Xbox fan who happened to have some spare 360 shells lying around, and thought that there was no better use for one than to turn it into a Mac.

While I’d call it the OSXBOX 360, Phil decided on the name Xbox G4. You say to-may-to, I say to-mah-to. It’s still a cool mod. The system runs on an 867MHz G4 processor, and has a built-in 60GB hard drive.

Since there wasn’t a way to get the Xbox DVD tray to work, an Apple Combo drive was cut into the side of the console. And thanks to it’s PowerBook roots, the whole thing can run on a rechargeable battery.

Want to take a shot at building one for yourself? Head on over to MacMod to check out Phil’s full build log.

This beautiful acrylic and perforated steel system started out as a beat-up Apple PowerBook that was nearly at death’s door. But modder Richard Hunt took his lemons and made some serious lemonade when he took his beat up old PowerBook, ripped it down to its bones, and placed its guts inside his slick hand-built case.

According to Hunt: “the case is made of two sheets of white acrylic, bolted together by socket countersunk screws. I’ve used 15mm chrome pipe as the four spacers between the acrylic sheet. The perforated steel was cut to my specifications by a very helpful chap found on eBay. Cutting the CD drive slot was a little tricky, as was drilling the power button hole, but once done they seem to function ok.”

As an added bonus, the system retained its original laptop battery, so it’s got sort of a built-in UPS.

The mod really proves that you don’t have to throw out your old systems if you’ve got time, talent and creativity.

[MacMod via NOTCOT]

[via Wired CultOfMac]

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