The IBM ThinkMac
Posted by Sam at December 21st, 2006
A friend of mine at work (Jordan) modded his 486 IBM Thinkpad into a tru-blue through and through Macbook Pro. I call it the IBM ThinkMac. It runs Windows 95, has 16 Megs of memory, and is capable of emulating a Nintendo almost flawlessly.
There she is. The outside case was painted with something that gives it a look very much like an aluminum Macbook Pro or Powerbook. And yes, that’s a parallel port on a Mac - the first ever!
This Apple logo was hand cut into the back of the LCD. Looks pretty good and even has a clear plastic piece fit into it.
Here is the computer open. This is also the first Mac to have one of those little trackball nub things.
Yes, the Apple logo glows white from the LCD’s backlight.
Whao.. who the heck at work did this?
I thought you were the only one there capable to do such a cool thing.
jon
jordan from tech support
dan
Nice one to jordan, but bad one to gthing who spelled his url without an “s” thus rendering his link worthless… real nice, sandwich…
Preston
I think this is a pretty neat DIY project but I can’t help to think that some one who has this much time to figure things like this out really needs a girl friend. So ladies if you’re looking for someone who’s obvously very handy ask gthing to hook you up with some digets.
wantiNGWrath
I should mention that I’m already married, but I appreciate the offer. Thanks!
Jordan
That’s pretty cool. Would be far more pain than its worth to re-paint each key on the keyboard to make it match, but if the guy’s bored enough one day it’d be cool to see.
Either way, just don’t let either IBM or Apple’s lawyers see this. They might through an intellectual property hissy fit.
packetjunkie
Can you fix the link for his page?
Stuart