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Laser Etching a Laptop

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the just-because-you-can-doesn't-mean-you-should dept.

ptorrone writes "I didn't really plan using a $20,000 laser cutter on my 17" PowerBook to etch a 19th-century engraving of a tarsier, a nocturnal mammal related to the lemur (also the vi book cover), but it seemed like it had to done. The results are stunning..."

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  1. I BET IT'S MORE USEABLE NOW! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Way to go jerk! I bet it's more useable now! Why don't you make it transparent like your windows? That would REALLY make it much more useable! You fucking apple fags are hilarious! Fucking homos.

  2. M-x engrave-cute-animal by Kartoffel · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Nice choice of an animal, too. Those Mac people have style. You wouldn't catch them engraving a woodcut of some cud-chewing African antelope or anything like that.

    1. Re:M-x engrave-cute-animal by ivan256 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      The Gnu is clearly the superior image. What type of primitive being would use anything represented by a big-eyed, butt scratching monkey?

      Also: The Gnu could crush your monkey. :) (or should that be :q? Damn. I can never remember ;))

  3. wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    And it would have been actually worthwhile if it was an image of something that you would actually want.

  4. Way to screw up a perfectly nice powerbook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Wow. Now it's absolutely hideous.

    And THIS qualifies as NEWS?

  5. Re:Very Nice... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This is the coolest things you fags have ever seen, admit it.