Ben Heck outdoes himself (again) with the Apple IIGS laptop

We're still reeling from Ben Heck's amazing PS3 laptop (which we'll be auctioning off for charity soon) but the man just hit us again with this amazing Apple IIGS laptop. Based off an original IIGS motherboard, the one-of-a-kind laptop features a 15-inch color screen, custom acrylic keyboard, a CompactFlash-based hard drive, and -- most importantly -- a glowing blue IIGS logo that flashes yellow during disk access. Hit the read link for tons more pics and a hot demo video -- you won't be disappointed.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 15th 2008 1:51PM]

Ben Heck, king of useless creations.....

[Ethan Posted Apr 15th 2008 5:02PM]

This is actually what blasphemy means on Engadget.

[silverfang77 Posted Apr 15th 2008 5:28PM]

Ah! The fond memories that brings back! We used Apple IIGS when I was in grade school! I would seriously buy that laptop if it were for sale just for the fun.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 15th 2008 7:48PM]

This is awesome.

Ben Heck is awesome.

Some company should throw a million dollars at him and invite him to just play in a R&D lab for awhile.

[dsstrainer Posted Apr 15th 2008 8:47PM]

I was just about to sell my Apple IIGS on Ebay.. now maybe i'll let the hype of this badboy get modders excited and pay more for my A2GS :) Nice mod... brings me back.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 18th 2008 5:28PM]

I had a IIgs as a kid. 2400 baud modem. Got me onto the local BBSs via the terminal program included in AppleWorks (sans ANSI graphics). I also spent hours playing SunDog which is, to this day, one of my all-time favorite games.