PowerBook 5XX replication or redesign?

[wthww]

Hi! I've been thinking. The only real way to make sure we still have powerbook 5XX machines that aren't in a million pieces for any meaningful amount of time is to make a new enclosure for them. So, here is my question. For the moment, ignoring the logistics what would be better? Exactly copying the original design [hinges!!!] or making a new one, and what would you guys recommend? I've oft thought about designing one I could produce out of acrylic...

//wthww

 

[beachycove]

What you really want is an old, but undeveloped design.

Well, at least that's what I want, what I really, really want … to make out of the spare parts I have from a plastics-challenged 540c.

 

[Bunsen]

One word: tablet. Either with the Wacom hack or with the KB inline with the screen, like the prototype in beachycove's link.

 

[wthww]

You are going to hate me, but I could care less about it being a tablet. I would rather have a functioning laptop. Something with hinges that are made of less fail. But we all have dreams, dont we?



//wthww

 

[Bunsen]

Naw, no hating here. It's just my personal fetish.

If you can design hinges with less fail in them, by all means go ahead :beige:

 

[tyrannis]

[hinges!!!]

wally's hinge repair