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Magic Mouse and MacBook teardowns15 comments

Phil Burgess wrote 1 month ago: The folks at iFixit must hold some kind of record for fastest-voided warranty. It’s been less than 4 … more →

Tags: macs hacks, peripherals hacks, Teardown, Apple, Mac, macbook, Magic Mouse, mouse

Laptop running on a sealed lead acid battery21 comments

Jakob Griffith wrote 2 months ago: [Viktor's] laptop needed a new battery; he had the trade off between carrying around a cheap but hea … more →

Tags: repair hacks, Battery, laptop, li-ion, notebook, sealed lead acid, SLA

KernelCheck kernel compiler14 comments

Mike Szczys wrote 3 months ago: If you’ve ever tried compile a linux kernel yourself you know the headache of configuring and … more →

Tags: downloads hacks, netbook hacks, compile, Debian, Kernel, Linux, ubuntu

Stereo microphones in an MSI Wind14 comments

Caleb Kraft wrote 6 months ago: [Matt] wrote in to tell us about this project. He plans on travelling with his MSI Wind and wanted b … more →

Tags: classic hacks, peripherals hacks, portable audio hacks, binaural, microphone, Netbook, Stereo

Eeepc picture frame24 comments

Caleb Kraft wrote 7 months ago: We’ve all seen a million digital picture frames. Usually, people use an old outdated laptop or … more →

Tags: Asus, EeePC, picture frame, Tablet

Dell mini 9 3G install6 comments

Caleb Kraft wrote 7 months ago: [Rob] sent in his Dell mini 9 3G install. He bought the Dell without the 3G option, but found that h … more →

Tags: classic hacks, 3G, acer aspire, Dell Mini 9, Netbook

Dell Adamo teardown4 comments

Eliot Phillips wrote 8 months ago: TechRepublic and iFixit partnered to teardown Dell’s flagship notebook, the Adamo. The Adamo i … more →

Tags: pcs hacks, Adamo, Air, Apple, Dell, dell adamo, Ifixit, MacBook Air, SSD

Commodore 64 laptop35 comments

Eliot Phillips wrote 8 months ago: [Ben Heck] has just completed one of his more unique laptop game consoles. This time around it … more →

Tags: portable video hacks, 1541-III-DTV, ben heck, Ben Heckendorn, C64, c64 laptop, commodore 64, Commodore 64 laptop, DTV

Mac LCD logo tutorial14 comments

Caleb Kraft wrote 8 months ago: [Eddie], who made the Mac Logo LCD Mod, had posted a step by step tutorial on how to do it yourself. … more →

Tags: macs hacks, peripherals hacks, Apple, LCD, Logo, Mac

Adding eSATA to an Acer Aspire 16 comments

Caleb Kraft wrote 9 months ago: In another installment of her ongoing efforts to mod the Acer Aspire 1, [tnkgrl] has added eSATA cap … more →

Tags: pcs hacks, acer, SATA, tnkgrl

Dell Mini 9 OSX install36 comments

Eliot Phillips wrote 9 months ago: Installing OSX on commodity PC hardware has advanced a lot since the early days of OSx86 when Apple … more →

Tags: macs hacks, netbook hacks, pcs hacks, Apple, boing Boing Gadgets, Dell, Dell Mini 9, DVD, eula

Vaio P HSDPA mod4 comments

Eliot Phillips wrote 9 months ago: [tnkgrl] has concluded her Sony Vaio P by adding GSM support. We covered the switch to XP earlier, b … more →

Tags: netbook hacks, wireless hack's, CDMA, EVDO, Gobi, GSM, hsdpa, Netbook, Qualcomm

VAIO P XP install30 comments

Eliot Phillips wrote 10 months ago: Sony recently started to shipping the VAIO P don’t-call-it-a-netbook netbook. It comes stock w … more →

Tags: downloads hacks, netbook hacks, pcs hacks, GPS, Netbook, Sony, sony vaio, Sony VAIO P, tnkgrl

Hackit: Are you running OSX on your netbook?30 comments

Eliot Phillips wrote 10 months ago: AppleDifferent decided to run some benchmarks on their MSI Wind hackintosh to see how it stacked up … more →

Tags: hackit, macs hacks, netbook hacks, Air, Apple, appledifferent, Asus, Benchmark, boing Boing Gadgets

Adding right click to a Macbook Pro49 comments

Caleb Kraft wrote 10 months ago: Surprisingly, one of the most common complaints we hear from people trying out macs are the fact tha … more →

Tags: classic hacks, macs hacks, Apple, macbook, right click, Track Pad

External antenna on Panasonic CF-R114 comments

Caleb Kraft wrote 10 months ago: [Steven] managed to get his hands on a Panasonic CF-R1 for pretty cheap. Though it is a decently pow … more →

Tags: classic hacks, netbook hacks, wireless hack's, Antenna, EeePC, external

Apple forces Wired to take down netbook OSx86 video27 comments

Strom Carlson wrote 10 months ago: Wired Gadget Lab has taken down a video made by [Brian X. Chen] in which he gives a brief overview a … more →

Tags: macs hacks, netbook hacks, News, Apple, Chilling Effects, Hackintosh, Mac, Macintosh, Netbook

Netbooks, slow thanks to Microsoft49 comments

Eliot Phillips wrote 11 months ago: [nico] pointed out something that didn’t seem to get any air-time during the recent netbook ke … more →

Tags: netbook hacks, News, pcs hacks, Kerfuffle, Licensing, Microsoft, Microsoft XP, Netbook, ULCPC

Netbook comparator16 comments

Eliot Phillips wrote 1 year ago: Our recent netbook post got a huge response. They are almost unanimously loved. A few dissenting opi … more →

Tags: netbook hacks, pcs hacks, Comparator, Netbook, obsessable, Shopping, subnotebook


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