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Translucent Red Apple iBook Custom Mod

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the customizing-the-uncustomizable dept.

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."

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  1. iMod by Merlin42 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  2. ''Anonymous'' by Tom7 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  3. Re:More like an iAd by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful
    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 /.

  4. Re:Nice look by Yarn · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

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  5. This iBook hack and other... by tweder · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...notebook hacks can be found here.

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

  6. Bleh. What's next? by realgone · · Score: 5, Funny


    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."

  7. Honestly... by ceejayoz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  8. And he's a pirate to boot by Arkham · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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).

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  9. The real story here by 0x0d0a · · Score: 5, Funny

    Step 1: Mod your computer

    Step 2: Put computer on eBay

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

    Step 4: Profit!

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