Monday, April 25, 2005
Turn That Spare PPC Into A Laptop!
Posted by Jon Westfall in "THOUGHT" @ 03:00 PM
"Someone has tricked-out a Toshiba e400 and turned it into a laptop of sorts. From the pictures, it looks like their goal was to use left over parts rather than actually create a state-of-the-art portable workstation. I think the portability suffers a bit in the effort, but it's fun to look at none the less."
While not the most modern technology wise, this rig certainly looks interesting. I think those of us who don't quickly sell our older PPC's on eBay (or who keep spares around just in case), probably often find ourselves with technology that it just doesn't pay to sell. Now we have a viable alternative - make the old new again by reinventing its form. Definitely a project I would have loved to ponder yesterday while my Internet was down for 15 hours (Snow in April... God is laughing at me...). Link goes to original Cyrillic, Source goes to writeup on ipaqhq.com.
Anyone ready to transform their old parts into a shiny new incarnation?
While not the most modern technology wise, this rig certainly looks interesting. I think those of us who don't quickly sell our older PPC's on eBay (or who keep spares around just in case), probably often find ourselves with technology that it just doesn't pay to sell. Now we have a viable alternative - make the old new again by reinventing its form. Definitely a project I would have loved to ponder yesterday while my Internet was down for 15 hours (Snow in April... God is laughing at me...). Link goes to original Cyrillic, Source goes to writeup on ipaqhq.com.
Anyone ready to transform their old parts into a shiny new incarnation?
