Corkboard Mac gives push-pins new purpose
By Darren Murph 
posted May 29th 2008 8:26AM
posted May 29th 2008 8:26AM
[Thanks, Steven]
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Waste of perfectly good corkboard space.
Waste of a perfectly good "FIRST!!!" space
Apple Pinbook™
Only $1500!
the iPin?
I would put the components behind the corkboard, sink the screen into the board so its flush.
This has to be the laziest case mod I have ever seen.
This my case mod, which I never did. I always wanted to see mobo etc hanging on a peg board behind my monitor,
So I guess you'd have to use a BT for keyboard & mouse, no? I think
it's kinda cool considering.
They should have nailed it to a cross...
Hahaha!
Upside-down, too. Add a few blood splatters, just to be safe.
WOW, oh my god, someone push-pinned a broken laptop onto a cork board!!!
This is relevant because?
@Bakari
Obviously its relevant because it some how deals with Apple, just be luckily they don't have a posting every time Jobs sneezes.
Steve Jobs sneezes?! Why has no one ever informed me of that before?
yes kal, because steve jobs himself did this case mod, and engadget never covers case mods. man you guys are desperate
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.
I actually have the PC version of this on my office wall.
Come on people - its functional tech art. No one complains when its SteamPunk or wooden PC enclosures. Would you rather another borg cube mod?
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
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.
Gasp! Never! There's always a 2:1 ratio of Fluff to Peanut Butter!
not all posts can be about something totally interesting. Fluff is good sometimes.
Seriously i would just mod this into a small pc case and have a tower rather than exposed parts on a cork board.
Wait, doesn't this completely defeat the most important quality in a Mac, the "Oooooh, pretty!" factor?
Are you saying that corkboards aren't pretty?
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!
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.
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
well i enjoyed this blog posting.
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!)
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.
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
thats a dell, this post is a mac. you do know the difference right?
Yes, I know the difference and you don't have to be a horse's a$$ about it
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)
Sheesh ! This is scarier than a living brain floating in a glass tank.