Comments on: Ben Heck’s Wii laptop on Engadget

By: Cody Cox

Cody Cox — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:48:38 +0000

I meant your freaking smart dude.

By: Cody Cox

Cody Cox — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:47:42 +0000

I like the ps3 laptop the best dude..

By: Cody Cox

Cody Cox — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:46:51 +0000

How do you do it dude?

By: Cody Cox

Cody Cox — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:46:10 +0000

Dude, you freaking smart!

By: Cody Cox

Cody Cox — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:44:54 +0000

Thats nar-lee dude!

By: Digital

Digital — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 10:53:58 +0000

I can see it now. You’re bored on the quad at college, whip out your wii laptop, step back a couple feet to get your game on, and BAM!!! Someone runs by and scoops up your new toy. Bye bye blackbird eh.?

By: kh

kh — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 03:48:16 +0000

Now people can throw the Wii laptop around instead of the controller. Kids hopping around in the back of the car/van playing the Wii… !! Great

By: ...

... — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 20:17:02 +0000

I think the reason that this one looks subpar is that he is planning to have people replicate it, so he couldn’t do as much of the insanly complex work that he normally does.

“Starting next Tuesday we’ll be doing a multi-part How-To with detailed instructions for building your own Wii laptop, as well as loads of photos of the construction process.”

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 18:45:11 +0000

The design lets this down, which is most unfortunate as Ben’s other projects kick ass. ‘Laptop’ – I don’t really see you putting this on your lap. Should have just integrated the monitor (a bigger monitor) into it rather than having it flip up. Then you can just stand it up, have a better view and it wouldn’t look so ugly. Should have just used 1 plastic rounded casing for all of the components, including monitor.

By: Grey Hodge

Grey Hodge — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:19:39 +0000

I agree with comment 5. Compared to the rest of his work, this looks hackish.

By: mastershake916

mastershake916 — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 06:42:46 +0000

Not to whine, but why does engadget get first crack at ben?
I mean we’re hack-a-day, it’s a little more up our alley.

By: Unkown

Unkown — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 05:57:40 +0000

I don’t think much of this at all. Not up to Bens standard in any way. He could have a least sunk the video ports in a little.

By: Spanky

Spanky — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 02:32:11 +0000

It’s pretty cool how quick he came up with this little bundle of fun. I’m still working on a way to get a PS1 to play a decent game ;) lol

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:25:09 +0000

So what happened to Ben Heck bagging out the Wii in the interview? Came around pretty quick once he played it hey…

By: wolf

wolf — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 23:02:09 +0000

looks a little bulky, considering the relativly small size of the wii…

Also, while i understand the novelty of making something portable, there are next to no places you’d ever be able to play it where you wouldn’t be just as well of with a stock wii. Although by nature the wii could never really be fully portable due to the need for the console (through the sensor bar) to act as a referece point, without batteries, the only difference between this and a stock wii is the 7″ screen , which, given the distances and movement necisary to operate the controler comfortably, would be practically unuseable