Corkboard Mac gives push-pins new purpose

Best we can tell, the Corkboard Mac was constructed from critical parts of an older PowerBook and gets held up by a series of colorful push-pins. Legend has it that the actual casing was destroyed in an unfortunate cooking accident, but thankfully, all of the vitals -- LCD included -- were left intact. Peep one more shot in the read link, and pay your respects as you enter.

[Thanks, Steven]

[Mac Who @ May 29th 2008 8:32AM]

Waste of perfectly good corkboard space.

[TimeyWimeyStuff @ May 29th 2008 9:27AM]

Waste of a perfectly good "FIRST!!!" space

[SimonRichards @ May 29th 2008 8:32AM]

Apple Pinbook™

[Christy McGrory @ May 29th 2008 8:36AM]

Only $1500!

[fred @ May 29th 2008 8:42AM]

the iPin?

[karts41 @ May 30th 2008 12:08AM]

I would put the components behind the corkboard, sink the screen into the board so its flush.

[Greg Mcp @ May 29th 2008 8:47AM]

This has to be the laziest case mod I have ever seen.

[james @ May 29th 2008 9:00AM]

This my case mod, which I never did. I always wanted to see mobo etc hanging on a peg board behind my monitor,

[PowerHouse @ May 29th 2008 9:06AM]

So I guess you'd have to use a BT for keyboard & mouse, no? I think
it's kinda cool considering.

[Don @ May 29th 2008 9:10AM]

They should have nailed it to a cross...

[PowerHouse @ May 29th 2008 9:13AM]

Hahaha!

[Lein @ May 29th 2008 9:15AM]

Upside-down, too. Add a few blood splatters, just to be safe.

[Bakari @ May 29th 2008 9:13AM]

WOW, oh my god, someone push-pinned a broken laptop onto a cork board!!!

This is relevant because?

[kal326 @ May 29th 2008 9:23AM]

@Bakari
Obviously its relevant because it some how deals with Apple, just be luckily they don't have a posting every time Jobs sneezes.

[Deibiddo @ May 29th 2008 12:34PM]

Steve Jobs sneezes?! Why has no one ever informed me of that before?

[phanbouy @ May 29th 2008 2:18PM]

yes kal, because steve jobs himself did this case mod, and engadget never covers case mods. man you guys are desperate

[Senor_Tom @ May 29th 2008 9:14AM]

I think it would look better if the mobo etc was behind the board, would look tres cool.
But, if you actually had that on a normal pin board and had a clever app open you could have it as a giant sticky note or sumthing.

[Jon Daive @ May 29th 2008 9:28AM]

I actually have the PC version of this on my office wall.

[roxboxxx @ May 29th 2008 9:32AM]

Come on people - its functional tech art. No one complains when its SteamPunk or wooden PC enclosures. Would you rather another borg cube mod?

[a2liter @ May 29th 2008 9:37AM]

Sorry but this is nothing new. I have been running a web server mounted on a board for almost 6 years now.

http://e-duct-tape.com/duct_tape.jpg

[jtc970 @ May 29th 2008 9:40AM]

Did a weekend post creep in on a weekday?

Seriously Engadget, An Apple logo shouldn't make you lower your standards of blogging, respect your readers.

less fluff and more peanut butter, please.

[rickhamilton620 @ May 29th 2008 9:48AM]

Gasp! Never! There's always a 2:1 ratio of Fluff to Peanut Butter!

[Wiigee @ May 29th 2008 10:50AM]

not all posts can be about something totally interesting. Fluff is good sometimes.

[digitallysick @ May 29th 2008 9:47AM]

Seriously i would just mod this into a small pc case and have a tower rather than exposed parts on a cork board.

[eddy @ May 29th 2008 10:07AM]

Wait, doesn't this completely defeat the most important quality in a Mac, the "Oooooh, pretty!" factor?

[Kizorblade @ May 29th 2008 10:43AM]

Are you saying that corkboards aren't pretty?

[Wiigee @ May 29th 2008 10:46AM]

no, when people (or at least i) say Macs are prettier than PCs, they are talking OS. howoever, in my view, vista is way prettier than OS X. and of course, Linux takes both of them. YAY compiz!

[t3_slider @ May 29th 2008 3:16PM]

YAY compiz! YAY crashing! Compiz still isn't ready. I use Linux as my daily OS and love it -- but Compiz is too unstable for me. I'm the kind of person who doesn't want ANY unpredictable behaviour or instability -- and Compiz definitely doesn't fit that bill.

[wlp @ May 29th 2008 11:28AM]

well i enjoyed this blog posting.

[Marc Moss @ May 29th 2008 11:37AM]

Reminds me of the current project I'm working on, REBOOT_. Reclaimed old Mac laptops, tasteful nude photos and customized server errors.

You can see what I'm talking about over at Flickr:

http://flickr.com/photos/lovenotfear/sets/72157605091503119/


You can follow the progress at my site: http://www.marcmoss.net

[MichaelD @ May 29th 2008 11:47AM]

Oh...I thought it was going to be a Mac *made* of corkboard...now THAT would give push-pins a new purpose (stab stab stab!)

[8kg_gerbil @ May 29th 2008 1:04PM]

FWIW it's a powerbook G4 Titanium. Probably a first or second generation since I can see the VGA port on the motherboard, whereas the newer ones had DVI.

[zeus9387 @ May 29th 2008 2:23PM]

The legend may be true. If this laptop belongs to this blogger.

Check out the oven roasted macbook story here

http://www.luckywhitegirl.com/2005/11/medium_rare_ele.html

[andrew @ May 29th 2008 11:42PM]

thats a dell, this post is a mac. you do know the difference right?

[zeus9387 @ May 30th 2008 12:01AM]

Yes, I know the difference and you don't have to be a horse's a$$ about it

[Ian @ May 29th 2008 3:07PM]

wow noone said anything about the most obvious... well at lest this mac wont be overheating any time soon.



(yes i know its a powerbook)

[Khan Kaan @ May 30th 2008 2:09AM]

Sheesh ! This is scarier than a living brain floating in a glass tank.