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Project Plex-Box

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the fun-hacks dept.

Greasy Spoon writes "Behold! The most ultimate XBox in the whole world. After growing tired with the dull black appearence of this guy's XBox (even with the green lighting skin added) he decided to spruce it up a bit."

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  1. Pretty boring by TheGrimace · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's an XBox in a plastic case. Somehow that just doesn't excite me much.

    1. Re:Pretty boring by JudgeFurious · · Score: 4, Insightful

      My thoughts too. "This? This is the ultimate XBox?"

      So basically all I need to do is replace the body on my corvette with a square plex box that a monkey could assemble to have the "ultimate Corvette" right? I'll pass.

      Post the story where some guy takes the existing XBox chasis, makes a mold of it, and casts his own in aluminum or clear plastic with lights inside of it and it might be worth the slashdotting that this guy's going to get.

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  2. Seems to me ... by Niet3sche · · Score: 4, Insightful
    That this is not in the spirit of modding. For instance, when he says, "look for it on ebay soon!", it sucks all the joy out of it for me. I thought that we, as a Geek Collective, made mods to overcome limitations imposed on our tastes. Instead, this seems to just be a mod to sell for profit.

    I'm not sure how this sits with me.

    My $.02

  3. Another lame mod... by Kulic · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is it just me or are all case mods the same these days? Add plexiglass, lights, leds, maybe vaguely interesting feature (X2 logo).

    Does anyone else remember when case modding used to be cool? Where are the stylish custom stickers? (some nice ones on penny-arcade a while ago) The lego man stuck in cryo in the optical mouse? (too lazy to go find this link too)

    Why isn't anyone pulling apart their CD/DVD tray and making that out of plexiglass?

    In summary, novel and innovative=cool, gratuitous use of plexiglass and lights=lame. (Soz for all the whining).

  4. Yeah great by brunes69 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Hey guys, I have a swell idea! Let's take an already huge and clumsy game console, and make it even LARGER! In fact, let's make it 3 TIMES LARGER!

    While we are at it, we can increase its already HORRENDOUS power consumption by ADDING MORE LIGHTS!

    This will get us on slashdot for sure!"

    Seriously though, most case mods are cool, but this is retarded. Not only does it look like ass but the form factor is now so huge you could'nt even keep it in your entertainment centre. Plus I bet it is significantly noiser now that it isn't in its native housing.

    The XBox is already a huge ugly console before doing this.