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Re: FrameBook

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Post by pcchristie »

jebarker wrote: post #30
shen wrote: post #20

I wish the same could be done with the 11 inch MacBook airs, still my favorite laptop I’ve owned.

I still rock one of these running Linux and it’s plenty capable for my hobby workloads. Just had to replace the inflating battery!

What era and which distro? I have one from ~ 2011... would be cool to do something with it.

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Post by soulofmischief »

The first-gen macbook shared a lot of internals with certain Dell laptops of the era. In 2010 I was homeless and attending high school at a boarding school and didn't have nice macbooks like my classmates, but I cobbled together my first laptop that summer from a few different old salvaged Dell models.

Dual-booting into a hackintosh was a breeze. I eventually salvaged an old T60 and it was a similar case, enough crossover in components that it wasn't any trouble running macOS.

This was in an era where you wanted Apple software even on non-Apple hardware. Today, it's the opposite.

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Post by ddxv »

Interesting because I always felt like the Framework already looks like a Macbook Pro with the grey case and the black keys.

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Post by montymintypie »

Love the energy with "i decided to just go for it.". The soldering to the touchpad is absolutely frightful, but you know what? First time soldering (to small testpoints no less), it works, it can always be fixed later if the joints fail. I've been getting too caught up in perfection with my recent projects, it's a good reminder that with a userbase of 1, it really doesn't matter.

Re: FrameBook

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Post by ndkdjdndndnnd »

dmoy wrote: post #13
sourcecodeplz wrote: post #9

So it's a Hackintosh?

Idk what the word for it is Hackintosh typically refers to running not-MacOS on apple hardware? Imo this project of removing almost all of the inner guts and using effectively a Frankenstein'd collection of things to reconstitute it into laptop needs a different word. If it were me I would choose Franekntosh

Hackintosh is running MacOS on non Mac hardware.

During the time of x86 macos this was AMD or Intel PCs

Re: FrameBook

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Post by nekiwo »

serf wrote: post #5

very cool project. id like to do something similar with my favorite thinkpad models. that said, practice soldering, the insulation on those wires[0] and the sheer distance that they wicked solder upwards makes me really wonder how much heat got dumped into those tiny pads! [0]: https://fb.edoo.gg/assets/images/image06.jpg?v=86ae0ddf

for cool framework thinkpad project, see https://github.com/Maglev-Rabbit/702_Project_Public.

Re: FrameBook

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Post by velocity3230 »

haunter wrote: post #22
zikduruqe wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or a printer... Or a phone ... Or a router ...

No one will make a printer because the margins are so low. They are like the FMCG [0] of the tech world 0, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast-moving_consumer_goods

* OpenPrinter has entered the chat.

https://www.opentools.studio/

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