This story made its rounds about our end of the blogosphere a few weeks ago, but after seeing someone mod a device so well, that I recently enjoyed reviewing, I couldn’t help but share it anyway.
Check out this very clean DIY project that turned an Acer Aspire One into a touch screen slate PC:
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I only wish there were some videos of it in action, it looks very impressive from the images. Swing by the todoUMPC forums to see all of them.
October 20th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
I must say I’m not overly impressed. It looks like he removed the keyboard and then attached the screen on backwards. I presume the Aspire One isn’t a touchscreen so he also changed that. I don’t see any great benefit - if he would have modded it to have a swivel screen, then I would have been impressed.
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October 24th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
I find it humorous how people are “unimpressed”, but have nothing of their own to point to as being a better example.
I, for one, find it very cool. It take time, skill and patience to be able to perform a mod that looks this clean.
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November 5th, 2008 at 12:46 am
In any way did not expect that from netbook such it is possible to make.:)
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November 7th, 2008 at 1:27 am
hi, how do you see the a possible forecoming of tactile Slate PCs Are they likely to compete/replace Notebooks one day ? Thanks for your answer.
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