Cool Mods – The PowerBook Desktop Mac Mod

powebook destop casemod

What do you do with your old PowerBook when it becomes broken and almost beyond use ? you turn it into this awesome desktop Mac Mod, like moder Richard Hunt.

powebook destop casemod

Essentially, the case is made of two sheets of white acrylic, bolted together by socket countersunk screws. Ive used 15mm chrome pipe as the four spacers between the acrylic sheet. The perforated steel was cut to my specifications by a very helpful chap found on eBay. Cutting the CD drive slot was a little tricky, as was drilling the power button hole, but once done they seem to function ok.

I have to say this is an amazing mod, and it looks great, head on over to Mac Mod for full details on how Richard made it.

via Technabob

What do you think?

  • Kate54

    Lovely re-use of a really crappy original design. This may be common knowledge, but I can’t believe Apple created this laptop, apparently out of the plastic used for take away food.
    Can’t imagine how you have two solid sides to work with – crack, crack, crack, in my experience.