Translucent Red Apple iBook Custom Mod

Anonymous Coward writes "There is a beautiful translucent red iBook mod that has surfaced on eBay, and the creator's homepage More and more of these mods are around lately.. pretty incredible." Update: 10/15 23:34 GMT by T : Anonymous Coward writes "Just a little note about the iBook Red Mod. The Ebay link has changed. And the author has posted a tutorial on his site."

Comments

iMod

[Merlin42]

Shouldn't this be called an iMod ... <groan>

More like an iAd

[Yarn]

Given that the story submitter is obviously the guy who posted it on ebay.

Anyone want to buy a 'modded' 486.

By modded I mean completely destroyed and useless. I found it in the loft of a place I moved into, gutted it for parts and burnt the remains.

Re:More like an iAd

[Anonymous Coward]

Let's see:

• "Anonymous Coward" with email address of mpaulton@mac.com
• mac.com website with username of mpaulton

Yep, the guying posting is obviously no relation to the seller, and is not using this story as an attempt to drive up the final sale price of his item.

The mod isn't even that impressive, seeing as we had a step-by-step guide posted a while back.
And the fact that an ad (that is obvious to anyone) is being posted does little to help the journalistic integrity of /.

''Anonymous''

[Tom7]

By "Anonymous Coward", you mean, the guy who is selling the thing on eBay?
I thought I had filtered out the advertisements on slashdot... ;)

Re:''Anonymous''

[esme]

By "Anonymous Coward", you mean, the guy who is selling the thing on eBay?

This would be funny if it wasn't true. I never noticed that the AC submissions linked to the email address -- not very anonymous, now is it?

I'm not one to complain about /. editors. I've been reading for about 4 of the 5 years, and it's been pretty consistent all the way -- an unprofessional, overgrown blog. But this takes the cake. This isn't just an ad -- Taco, you're a tool.

-Esme

Re:Nice look

[Yarn]

Pretty easy. Kinda pointless imo. I have a nice IBM box hosted with linux on it, as well as a pretty decent desktop which dual boots win2k/debian. I did dual boot debian/macosx for a while but I ended up spending all my time in OS X anyway.

Here are the instructions I used: Branden's Guide to Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 onto an Apple iBook

This iBook hack and other...

[tweder]

...notebook hacks can be found here.

More hacks can be found at the main AppleFritter hacks page.

Bleh. What's next?

[realgone]

Anonymous Coward writes 'There is a beautiful modern OS that has surfaced on the Microsoft site, and the homepage of someone who's just switched. More and more of these converts are around lately... pretty incredible."

Virus Alert!

[dhardman]

And here I thought my Mac was impervious to the "Code Red" virus. ::Off to buy some Anti-Virus software so I don't end up with a Red TiBook:::

Huh?

[jsimon12]

I am confused? The Anonymous Coward link goes to the sellers email? Is this simply an shameless ad, if so why has it been posted?

Honestly...

[ceejayoz]

If you're going to call your own work "pretty incredible", you'd best remember to delete the e-mail address linking you to the work from the submission form...

Pretty shameless self-promotion.

And he's a pirate to boot

[Arkham]

It's funny that someone would be stupid enough to post a story about their own auction, and funnier still that the moderators would post it.

What's not funny is that this guy is selling a bunch of "preinstalled" software with no CDs, which essentially is pirated software. I suspect that all of his serial numbers can be found in "Cracks & Numbers" or "Hackers Helper".

This guy might want to be careful lest he end up in jail for grand theft (the value of the software listed is several thousand dollars).

The real story here

[0x0d0a]

Step 1: Mod your computer

Step 2: Put computer on eBay

Step 3 (THE MISSING LINK!): Post story to Slashdot

Step 4: Profit!