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Old 03-13-2005, 12:06 PM   #1
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Here's the world's first wooden laptop

A rebuilt Dell Inspirion notebook made of wood and leather.

I pulled this from www.hackaday.com
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Here is my laptop: the “legnatile”; I replaced the plastic shell with a wooden one; it took about 4 months of work, and now it’s lighter than the original plastic shell. A unique piece, ultimate frontier of case modding, joint of natural wood and leather, with high technology. Inspired by “Snow Crash” by Neal Stephenson … the FIRST real wooden laptop in the world!

nicely done! i should tally this up:

* old dell laptop hacked
* case actually made entirely of wood and leather
* neal stephenson reference
* runs linux
Here are the pics....
http://zaverio.net/laptop/legnatile/index-en.html
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Old 03-13-2005, 12:30 PM   #2
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Wow I like that, I like it a lot.
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Old 03-13-2005, 12:36 PM   #3
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:| WOW! thats insane! i want one! the quality of that is crazy, very nicely done.
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Old 03-13-2005, 01:10 PM   #4
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Nice

Too bad the keys aren't made out of wood too...
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Old 03-13-2005, 01:38 PM   #5
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Now that would have been cool.
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Old 03-13-2005, 04:18 PM   #6
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That just seems like too much effort to me.
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Old 03-13-2005, 06:04 PM   #7
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too much work .
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Old 03-16-2005, 04:23 AM   #8
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I like it.... wouldn't do it, wouldn't pay extra for it, but it's nice

I like his selection of music... has anyone actually ever heard of The Yellow Sharks??
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Old 03-21-2005, 02:17 PM   #9
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wehn i read the first post i was like...omg itlll just be a tacky bit of plywood and some 'plastic' leather out of a cheap car from a scrapyear but then i looked at the pictures and all ive got to say is.... thats cool
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