Using this guide: , teardown your Macbook until the LCD has been freed. This build is not to be undertaken lightly! It involves cutting a huge hole in the display lid, tearing the keyboard to its basic parts, cutting parts of the chassis, and soldering/desoldering tiny wires which connect to the logic board. You're probably excited by the cheap cost by now, so before we begin, here's a word of warning:ĭuring this build, you will destroy a perfectly good Macbook. (Several other parts and accessories have been collected over the years and have been reused.) £20 - Wire, solder wick, flux pen from Proto-Pic £25 - HP TX1000 Stylus and spare nibs, off eBay. £25 - HP TX1000 Wacom Digitiser with cable, off eBay. £150 - Macbook Core 2 Duo (2.16gHz, 80gb hard drive, 1gb ram) sold without battery or OS X, off eBay. My build is currently topping out at £240. On launch, the Modbook's RRP was a whopping £1,649. Whilst being the object of my affections for a few years, the price tag was just too great. The inspiration for this build came from the Axiotron Modbook (or nowadays, Modbook Inc's Modbook Pro), which turned a Macbook Core 2 Duo into a tablet. The optical drive, keyboard and trackpad get ditched for a USB hub and some funky peripherals. Instead of using a Wacom tablet such as c4l3b or tqbrady's build, this tablet uses a modified Wacom TabletPC digitiser and stylus from a HP TX1000. The build is self-contained within the original Macbook body. There are three excellent Mac Tablet builds on Instructables already, so what sets my build apart from the crowd? IPad too small or too locked-down for you? Build your own Mac Tablet!
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