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absolutely love 60%, great for programming. my hands never have to leave the home row & i can rest the keyboard right on top of my laptop.

i agree. i think this was definitely inevitable.

gundams and evas yes please!

that waffle vid...

it doesn't look like there is a topic made for past guests who have already starred on the show. does anybody know if this info exists somewhere?

in the computex video you can see the demo model is ANSI. still no word on a north american release date tho?

this is awesome man, really cool to see a car related mod. i've been wanting to do one as well; wire up a NUC into the glove with some sort of custom cooling solution. either way looks clean yo!

thanks guys!

thanks d00ds! no worries got win7 running in a vm for now! haha the ram constriction is a bummer but i'm only using this for programming at the moment. and maybe some occasional ftl during a boring lecture. lol

hey windspeed! cool to see you around these parts. lol i wish right! and let me tell you attempting to bootcamp this was such a nightmare! basically bootcamp doesnt play well with raid and wont let you install to a secondary drive. then i installed both operating systems on the drive in the optical bay which is only a sata II interface... fail city. its impossible to switch the OS' over to the other drive without unplugging the storage option and lets just say its no party opening up this thing. since i've just restored the raid partition and restored from a backup. /sigh

So I'm finally i'm updating this and here is the final product! so what did i decide to do about that dirty old crappy topcase? so not what i initially planned, but overall i like how it turned out. i was initially going to keep my white topcase, clean it thoroughly, and replace the keys with a fresh set of black ones! i even thought about spraying a couple custom ones. like the WASD ones or something? instead i just ended up replacing the topcase with a whole new black one. thankfully dirt wont show up nearly as much on this one! in this picture i have the case on; it's just a clear spec one. i don't think i like it and i don't even know if this dinosaur computer warrants having a case. hah here is a close up on the display hinge that you can see is also wrapped up. you may also notice the lack of apple branding. i thought about spraying the display bezel in a cool pattern as well, but it was just too crappy and falling apart. i couldn't even get every clip secured! i broke a couple too, but i don't feel replacing something so trivial on such an old rig would be worth it. clearly i can't focus a camera either. some of the cuts around the I/O. not super clean but hey... whatever... a couple more glam shotz of this thing sittin' pretty. and thats it. i honestly don't even know how much longer i will use this computer. hopefully it lives long enough to get me through school. lol however if i do end up throwin down for a new laptop i will likely do some mods and post another build log! anyways drop me a comment and let me know what you think, or of course flame on. PEACE.

dat power cable is ballin!!

thanks! i hadn't seen any laptops either which is another reason i decided to post this. i will post the specs this weekend when i put up the final pics.

ya the only thing that made this appealing to me was the streaming capability.

wow thanks for the friendly response and since you suggested, i may just do that. and on that note i'm writing the post as soon as this one is finished.