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The opposite of turning an Ikea coffee table into a server rack has to be turning an Apple Xserve into a coffee table:

https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/kig3gw/do_coffee_t...

That's cool! I'm using a cheesegrater Mac Pro as a night stand:

https://i.imgur.com/qZW9nkN.jpg

Holy... that's hilarious. I turned my G5 into a Hackintosh before, but now it just sits in the basement. Still ove how it looks.

I have one as well but it's mostly gathering dust at the moment. It really needs some kind of a soft mat on top of it which I've been too lazy to procure.

Using drive trays as drawers shows class, but putting a computer in a glass box is too easy.

On the other hand, there are computers with a form factor that allows direct reuse as a table or sideboard, like the Connection Machine CM2 (smaller than it looks in most photographs) or the less curvy SGI Onyx and Onyx2 models (the perfect size for bedside use).

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