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13lazer
01-02-2007, 07:38 PM
my dad got me a cool book for christmas, its about putting obsolete computer components together and making a into a usefull portable pc for near no $. its basically a cusomized computer that is far too complicated to be of any use to the lowlife laptop thieves. the applications for such a mod are unlimited. i have been seeing this idea floated on sites in various places.
thanks to dell's ****ty inspiron 8600($2700) new, and then 600m (given to me by another victim of the dell Q.C. program with motherboards that die suddenly after the warranty wears out. now i have 2 high quality flatscreens from these dell out of warranty boat anchors that dell wont answer for. i intend to strip every useful chip i might need. i havent seen anything mentioned on this board on this topic and i thought id share. here are a few pix showing where i am so far. this one might be a little tougher even then knocking(burning out ) my old 4x4 spring hanger/shackle bolts, but i really hope not. ill post info as i get there, im still reading the tech book and taking inventory of my pile of goodies.

cstanley
01-03-2007, 01:45 PM
check out the forums at mp3car.com
they have tons of great info there. this is one of the mods i'm doing to mine...

some posts i'm aware of on this site...
http://www.67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/showthread.php?t=197580
http://www.67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/showthread.php?t=84222

i think there are more out there.

just make sure you get the startup/shutdown controller, i think Opus makes it...

13lazer
01-03-2007, 02:59 PM
ill do that, thanks. i saw some stuff on my yahoo under hack a day. the book was in the computer section of borders books and it is really detailed. it explains how to power it with capacitors, through how to get windows on a flash memory card. im thinking 40 gig ipod for my h.d. or something similar.