wow…just wow. NICE work.

sweet mod, but to really make it a laptop, don’t you think it should run on batteries? I guess that would make it more difficult.

the 360 would never run off a battery for long enough to make it worth the added weight. Sick mod i can’t believe how professional it looks!

Holy crap. Thats just freaking amazing.
I bow to your technical prowess.

amazing…

two hacks in one day… it’s almost like hackaday chrismahanukwanza… almost.

Very nice work. The true definition of a hack (Hell it should even please steve!)

1 problem I can see…….. those very nice milled air holes are on the bottom, where hardly any air can get pulled in!

Maybe if the back was raised it would increase air cooling properties.

i just wish it had some battery power, and i also wish microsoft spent more than ten seconds on the efficiency of this machine. the heat output alone of this beast could melt some solder unless there is some thermal shutoff i’m not aware of (perhaps the chip smasher has a thermal switch we’ve never heard of)

i also just wanted to post this so the comments box sticks with my new email

that’s freakin amazing.

that thing wrocks my socks

yes agree with every one very cool and it must be kept cool 2. 3ghz processor in that thing LOVE IT

yes must admit like this very much keep up the good work

omg where ams teh leds!! hackaday plz start shows me sume reel hax k thanks steve

You fucked up Hack a Day.

what sort of hack is this this is hack a day bring some reel hacks this is not one whoever came up with this needs to find a reeal hack and stop posting this rubbish in britain you dont find this rubbish

nice, but i would have opted for a keyboard-less monitor mounted contraption. Less portable but better suited for it’s usage. Still, I think there’s money to be made doing that. Not so expensive for a gaming laptop/ media viewer at all.

If only the 360 weren’t so bulky and hot. Reminds me: the (late) psx’s form factor was perfect. Sexy thing…

Also seen on Engadget with a snide comment about it needing “magsafe” for the power cord.

http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/11/ben-heckendorns-xbox-360-laptop-best-mod-ever/

IMHO i HATE this new software. I don’t like the ‘show next comments’ button. Why can’t there be a ‘Show all comments’ button?

1. glad to see comments are alive again
2. they new skin looks like crap

In any case, great hack… I will admit water cooling was a little, umm, bold… Why not use heatpipes? In the time he spent debugging the watercooling he could have probably mastered them; and they don’t leak ;)

And I think you could have found a slightly more elegant power cord solution… With the $$$$ you spent on this, seems like a decent connector should have been in the budget…

Also, if I were to build this I would have dumped the flip screen and just mounted the screen in the top (ie tablet style) and dumped the keyboard. Just include a usb port and keep a keyboard in your car… That should have greatly simplified the build… I would have made it slightly larger so that you could fit the power supply in the box… Just an IEC power cord on the back.

As to battery power… The battery in my laptop is good for 50w/hrs and weighs just under a pound. If you wanted 2hrs of play time and the xbox was drawing the 200w That is only 10 batteries… (with derating for the high current draw) So you can go from 20lbs to 30lbs and have a portable xbox360… And of course you could make it detachable…

Its not the 3ghz cpu’s, its the poor cooling, and watercooling so long as the parts are sufficient should be fine…

Steve you are a dumb ass

-Fragged

fraggd why dont you go and defragg yourself i think you got the dumb ass bit round the wrong way mate

O.o That’s incredible.

This is sooooo sweet!
If only i could have your uber-prowess in mod skill.
Can I buy one PLEASE :P

Loove this mod! totally impressed one of the most practical mods ive seen in ages I had to blog this one!

omg that damn thing is so freaking sweet this dude should sell all his mods he would make a fortune all peep out my newest console its called Pirate Evolution and it is playable…… happy hacking asuka out

http://www.myspace.com/pirate0evolution

That is possibly the best console to “other use” mod I’ve ever seen, it’s very tidy looking and the detailing is superb! :)

He’s even testing my favourite 360 game on it (Dead Rising) so a man of exquisite taste too.

Well done that geek!

what is the point what a wast of money i could do this but whats the point microsoft build them so why do this its only £150 for a LCD screen i know it would of cost a lot more than that to make this maybe if you put a BAT init it would be worth it but what you did its a wast of money iv work for microsoft in the past and new they were planing this and no the INs and outs of this system and i have my own and have the fan stand and intercooler and my xbox 360 gives out cold air no hot not even warm air and it works fine not one crash or even a frezz up its grt ok iv said what i wanted to say lattas

damn he should consider make a deal with microsoft and make 360 laptops

yeah ok so he is clever, its a lot like car customization, make it look good regardless of whats in the case, anybody can figure out atari pinouts and rework NES boards. all it does is look pretty, microshaft did the real work all he is doing is putting the same shit in a different wrapper. i could weld up an aluminum case and have slots milled like he did. if you can make things its nothing special. then again i’m a blue collar nerd so nevermind.

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