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The Wii Laptop

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-you-can dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This Wii laptop was 3 months in the making and cost around £300. Check out the Ben Heck forums for more information." The insides look a little bit wobbly to me, but you sure gotta respect the hack.

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  1. Re:I'd love to see... by Wannabe+Code+Monkey · · Score: 4, Informative

    I suspect he made this primarily because he is Ben Heck, and this is the kind of thing he does. Nonetheless I can't help but ask "what is the point".

    It was posted to the benheck.com forums, but I don't think it was actually Ben Heck. My first clue was that this Wii based laptop is bulkier than Ben's XBox 360 Laptop, my second clue was that Ben Heck doesn't sound like a 15 year old British kid, and my third clue was that I didn't think Ben Heck would use the handle OMGpedobear on his own forums.

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  2. hmmmm??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    my question is If he can make a WORKING laptop out of anything ... why doesnt he work for dell???? they can use the help >_>

  3. Re:Houraaaay!!!! by mwvdlee · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He's made it like this so you can take it along to other peoples' places and play it there.

    Now if only he had a TV output, that would be more useful. Then he could just leave the screen off too. A detachable bar would be handy to put on top of the TV and perhaps he could also have a detachable keyboard. Then it could be a bit smaller too, kind of the size of 2 or 3 DVD boxes sounds about right. Basically if he transformed his Wii laptop into a Wii, it'd be much more usable.

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  4. Re:I'd love to see... by BattleApple · · Score: 4, Informative

    Another clue is that 5 seconds into the video he says "It's built out of expanded PVC, like Ben's"