Why did Edmund Hillary climb Mt. Everest? Why did Livingstone venture deep into the jungles of Africa? Why did Prince change his name to an unpronounceable symbol?
The same reason this intrepid modder spent his valuable time and money popping a 2.16GHz Core Duo into the $599 Core Solo Mac mini.
Because it was there.
In a vindication of Cyrus’s post from earlier in the week, this veritable processor MacGyver chronicles his journey on this thread of the XtremeSystems.org forum.
[hat tip: XtremeSystems.org via Digg]
