hey everyone, i am new to these forums... actually my first post... anyway, i've been working on this project for about a week now, and its looking good enough to show off a bit. the laptop was given to me because of the condition it was in (see pictures!) so i had this empty xbox case laying around and decided to get creative. enjoy the pics i'll post as i make progress on it. also post your ideas for me if you have any. i havent totally decided yet but i might be putting a nokia cell phone screen on the front where the power and eject buttons were. there are some kind of drivers for the nokia phone screen, so hopefully i should be able to have it display song titles and maybe visuals? that'll require more research, but if you know something about things like that feel free to throw in your 2 cents, i definitely want some form of lcd on it when its finished


this is the laptop how it was given to me...


some test fitting


original idea for hard drive


after some mounting hardware



so far the only added fan, but being a laptop motherboard it hopefully wont have any overheating issues


what i came up with for a chipset cooler, the original one was part of the laptop case, so i used one off an old motherboard


hard drive and cdrom mounted



test fit for the top, im gonna put in a tinted piece of plexiglas where the X is cut out