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MacBook Mod Gives Base Station Chassis New Purpose

Posted by timothy on from the hyper-extension dept.

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."

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  1. So you bolted together a Mac from parts ... by Viol8 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... and put it in a case.

    And it worked.

    Umm yeah , and?

    Must be a REALLY slow news day today.

  2. No, it's a Mac case mod. by MsGeek · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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