MacBook Mod Gives Base Station Chassis New Purpose

odysseus31173 writes "A little over a year ago, I began developing for the iPhone and needed a working mac (not a Hackintosh), so I decided to purchase a MacBook logic board to save on cost. I modded a Linksys case to accept the logic board (along with all of the other hardware) and made it function again. The Mac currently runs Leopard and has a working iSight and mic along with fully functional WiFi and bluetooth. The RAM is the standard 1 gig, but the hard drive has been upgraded to 160 gigs. The iSight/mic holes in the front panel are hard to see and this could be used as a nanny cam of sorts."

Comments

Um

[somersault]

I think hacking together your own "Mac" out of a mac logic board and non-mac hardware still counts as being a "Hackintosh".

So you bolted together a Mac from parts ...

[Viol8]

... and put it in a case.

And it worked.

Umm yeah , and?

Must be a REALLY slow news day today.

Re:So you bolted together a Mac from parts ...

[Sandbags]

if he did it for less than the cost of buying the same model Mac (used, and out of waranty), then it's a win. If a used/refurb Mac of the same or better model WITH a waranty costs less, then it;s a big lose... In fact, I'd say, to be a viable system and worth the effort, it would have to cost 70% or less than a used Mac with a waranty, including all the parts needed to make this what it is.

No, it's a Mac case mod.

[MsGeek]

Hackintosh = bog standard PC running Mac OS X.
Case mod = hardware stuffed into a case that is wildly different or decorative or super-functional.
Mac case mod = Mac logic board stuffed into a case that is wildly different from standard Macs.

I still want to do a Classic Mac modded with a Mac mini inside and an LCD replacing the old CRT.