Comments on: Behead your laptop

By: Jessie

Jessie — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:27:01 +0000

kvm switches simplify things a whole lot

By: topogigio

topogigio — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:07:44 +0000

Who you calling a mac tard, you homebrew faggot, linux luvr

By: alex mccown

alex mccown — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:39:59 +0000

lol ive done this ALOT i collect laptops (email me at hvhaxor@gmail.com if you have one) and most of the ones i get have busted in screens … i call them halftops

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:13:52 +0000

Just make sure to pull the antenna out of the lcd frame before cutting it. My friend cut the antenna from her laptop and couldn’t get anything for reception.

By: diy audio projects

diy audio projects — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:55:38 +0000

@3
Great idea for a mame! Thanks.

By: fucter

fucter — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:30:05 +0000

my sister did this 5 years ago. she doesnt even read hackaday

By: Trey

Trey — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:19:06 +0000

I did this to an old amd lappy a few years ago. Didn’t require any mods to a screen sensor. We called it Lt. Dan and it served us well.

By: flaunt_dzx

flaunt_dzx — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:59:36 +0000

"all of you mac-tards". lol, thats classic. seeing as he has it under his desk though, who cares? did you rtfa?

love,

dj c4 battlesnakez

By: Urlax

Urlax — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:51:52 +0000

Why didn’t he tape the laptop behind the screen? those dell displays have an built in usb hub if i can recall correctly.. he’d have a nice iMac then!

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:36:41 +0000

I once had an idea to embed a notebook (without screen) into a kitchen counter. Keyboard and touchpad would be visible from the surface, with a USB/Firewire discdrive mounted in a drawer or something. Then a display could be mounted like an under-cabinet radio.

By: jim

jim — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:13:52 +0000

the only problem is that used LCDs are about $20 for an old mac, because that many get stripped for parts

By: jeffs3rd

jeffs3rd — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:41:04 +0000

Hmmm, that's kind of interesting. Might have to finally create that linux server out of one of my old Lifebooks. I could mount it underneath my computer desk and attach it to my existing monitor via a KVM.

I like the MAME idea pocketbrain has also.

Could also make a mythTV box with a TV out and a PCMCIA video capture card. Might run into resolution issues though.

By: Joel Sullivan

Joel Sullivan — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:34:38 +0000

Why not cut the trace to the reed switch instead of taping that stupid magnet there? That’s super ghetto and all of you mac-tards tend to find sexual gratification from the appearance of your machines, so having the unsightly magnet taped there seems somewhat blasphemous. It would take all of 5 minutes.

By: mithras

mithras — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:22:07 +0000

I like it — using that would make me feel like I was on my Amiga 500 again!

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:00:59 +0000

I have a g4 powerbook I was given sans LCD but otherwise functional that gets used much like this when I need a spare desktop. The rest of the time it runs as my BT client, far less wattage than leaving my tower on all the time.
Collect enough old slow laptops and you’ve got a cheap cluster.