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Old Jan 15, 2007, 06:53 AM   #1
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Laptop Mod...
Hmmm, I have decided I want my old ugly grey Latitude D400 from Dell to get a new life via a couple of mods...

Well in general, my idea is the following:

Paint all in Black (basecoat)
Red Gears of War logo (like my sig, cept without the blood)
Maybe Red LEDs from the air ventilation (if I can figure out how)

Anyways, I was wondering if anyone else had EASY nice ideas? I dunno, I'm gonna take my time with this...
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Old Jan 15, 2007, 09:16 AM   #2
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that sounds awesome dude i really hope you can pull it off
at the moment i don't have any ideas since i'm at school and i'm sorta under pressure to time the minimise so i don't get busted ;P
i'll post some ideas later when my teacher isn't a few seats down ;P
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Well I guess I'll make a worklog of some sort here as I go through this...

I was wondering, any of you know a good way to paint a plastic? I mean, do I need a clear coat? Or primer or anything?
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Old Jan 16, 2007, 06:26 PM   #4
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i dunno dude i'll google it,
er check this out you might get some ideas > http://forums.gideontech.com/index.p...3707.msg359932
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yep, you'll need to undercoat/prime it before you paint otherwise it might just chip and peel off.
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Hmmm now I gotta figure out how to say Primer in french... Damn
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Hmmm now I gotta figure out how to say Primer in french... Damn
"amorce" is primer in French, but I think that relates to bombs..
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You used google? Ya tis not really that... I'll try and see in the shops tomorrow
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oops, sorry, I just used a dictionary.
I used to have passable (tourist french), but fallen very badly out of practice
a bit shamefull given I spent 5 years studying it
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Old Jan 17, 2007, 01:46 PM Threadstarter Thread Starter   #10
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Wow now that's something I didn't know about you... Cool man!

Alors on peut parler en francais sur DH et personne nous comprends? Trop fort

Hahahaha okay I'll stop...
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Heh laptop mods that made me chuckle. When photobucket comes back up I'll post 'Rug-mod'. My laptop laid out all over all over a rug but still running, can't see it catching on unless you own a magic carpet. My actual plans are to fit it into a PS2 case with the screen flat on top. As to why, well it's a long story and i'd rather not go into it LOL.
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^ rofl you've got way too much free time ;P
Anywho dude i've just had an idea, why not try cutting a see through panel on the bottom so if someone asks you what part or w/e you have installed you can see ;P

A: "What's the memory your'e runnin on that?"
B: *flips laptop up*
B: "2x 512mb so 1gb"

yeah i know you coulda just used windows but you get the idea lol, how many laptops have you seen with a SEE THROUGH PANEL? though lol, i haven't seen any
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Ahh the old laptop on a rug



Picture of it running is on my PC upstairs but working on these things is no different to working on a regular desktop, everything is just smaller and a lot more fiddly. Since that picture i've stripped the screen out of it's case, it's amazingly thin.
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cool, would it be possible to stick a VGA adapter on the end of the ribbon? that would be a thumbs up, uber rep +++ from me if you could
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Nope this is what I spend my life trying to get across to people LOL. See the chip halfway up with the blue thermal pad and the four black chips around it. That is a laptops graphics. Soldered to the board never to be removed. It's still very rare to get a laptop with modular graphics. I think google should hotlink this on it's main blank page hehehe, it would save a million people asking the same question on every forum around the globe.
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Old Jan 18, 2007, 01:13 AM   #16
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Peinture primeur <--- in quebecois that's paint primer.
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Not bad so far, lets see some water cooling installed on it, then we'll be real impressed
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Now that would definately rock
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