I'm extremely bored today. I was just sitting around and I thought, I have an old strobe light in my closet that has different color inserts. and that gave me an idea.

so yeah, I took my iBook apart...and took pics of course. I figured I would post this here because people seem to ask about it sometimes.

added a little more aqua to it....

as you can see the top comes right off completely. just 4 hex screws and that's it



a pic of the back of the lcd



the insert



the ibook off



ibook on with backlight on

Good job man! Looks nice!

You put that blue sheet on just like that? So you take out that white piece of paper and just put the other in? WOW, great job.

simple but effective mod to make your ibook unique
i may do that when i decide to buy my *book.

dont know whether to get power or i book.

to me the white is sexy but aluminium is nice too!

i didn't post it because i thought it was impressive or hard to do. a lot of people have said things about it so i just wanted to show it was extremely easy.

and no i didn't take out the white sheet. it is glued down under the foam so i left it there.

Cool Mod. How about making a classic apple logo with your own printout?

Thank you, my friend! It looks a lot better like that! If I ever get one, I will try that. I also have an old strobe light and its inserts. It's so quick and easy, but yet it's worth it!

yeah that would be cool. you could make just about anything really. get a transparency sheet for an overhead projector and print something cool so the light still shines through.

You're right, a transparency would look great. I wouldn't use paper, though, since it wouldn't look very consistent with light shining through.

Wow, that was insanely easy. Nice job StevoFC. I likey! Now, can I afford an iBook and is the speed decent? hmmmm ...

yeah it works great. mine is 1.33ghz. when i got it i was actually surprised how great it ran, even before i upped the ram to 768mb.

That's a great looking mod! If I get an iBook I'll definitely be doing the same to mine.

Thats pretty sweet...I wonder if its that easy on a powerbook

LMAO, I am so sorry. I didn't mean too say that sarcastically. I was serious. I was just trying ask if it was really that simple to do.I am going to try this tomorrow. LOL sorry for the misunderstanding. Heh, come to think of it I dod sound like a smart @ss in that post. Sorry.

it is really simple. the hardest part is getting the outer case off once you have the screws out. it has little tiny clips that just kind of hold it in place and you don't want to push on the screen or bend it while you do it.

Very nice mod

Ah, so you got it at 256mb before? What amount of performance leap did you see after 768?

That looks very nice. It work look great with a black case.

yeah it came with 256 built in and i added a 512. it's hard to explain the performance difference. i guess it's more responsive. and many more programs can be open at once with little to no lag. but it actually runs pretty well with just the 256 in it.

I think I'm going to try it with a black paper or whatever those things are called.

They're called gels, and are used in Studio/stage lights as well. They come in hundreds of different colors; I got a sheet of Crimson Red to do some mods on my PC's lights awhile ago. I'd use the left overs to do this, if I wasn't so jittery about opening my iBook

honestly it's not hard at all. just be careful and don't put too much pressure on the screen.

i was thinking about using red also, but i thought it may look too pink since i left the white piece in.

that's why i got now is the 256, huge performance boost with 512! and yeah what kind of paper is that becuase i really want to do that but with red paper

Didn't that just void your warrenty?

yeah but if i ever need it fixed i'll just take it out first. that's why i didn't rip out the other stuff in there already.

im thinkin of doin this on my g3 ibook. cant u just use tissue paper?

yeah tissue paper will work. might not look as good as other things though.

i would try it with green transparent paper.....that would look great

i really want to do it orange.....where can u get the "stuff" to make it look good, gels or w/e they are called

Good one StevoFC! Was considering doing this, but was hesitating as to how simple it actually was!!

Cheers.

Dougal.

Darn, looks just like mine now. I used a piece of plastic from a notebook though. I guess I will change my color soon.

Really, I doubt it... a white sheet can't exactly "tint" the red is at the top, right?
Correct me if I'm wrong, I always thought that having it like that wouldn't do anything.

Looks great, I wonder if it is that easy to do to a powerboook...

yeah it would probably work fine. i may try it one day, who knows. i'd prefer the blue though probably anyways.

Looks nice, StevoFC

this is the coolest one i've seen so far...

Dude that is simple and sweet..... why can't more girls come like that? lol

cool stuff! seems easy enough.... will have to try that when i get an iBook sometime

yeah that is pretty sweet. i need to find something here to do that with. if i do i may make the old apple logo.

What I did to mine is remove that white sheet underneath. Makes the Apple logo MUCH brighter instead of diffusing it which is what that does. I thought about doing the vintage logo, but Im far too lazy for that at the moment. Looks good though Stevo, I thought you slapped a Fruit Roll Up on there for a minute though

The vintage logo is done with one of the old stickers that used to come with Macs before they switched to the monochrome logo.

looks great! i wasnt sure how a blue light would look, but it actually really works well with the Aqua theme in Mac OS X.

A few other readers were commenting on haveing different coloured lights in their *books. i know a site ( here ) which has pictures of many different Mac customisations. a pretty nice site

a more direct URL is here

how would I do this with my powerbook? I wanna make it green...

It's exactly the same way as StevoFC did it, nexionly.

So how easy is this to do to a Powerbook? I just got my new 15" and would like to make the backlight hunter green, or at least remove that white sheet and make it brighter.

I'm sure its the same for the powerbooks...

well i did it to my ibook

thanx Stevo for the inspiration!

Check it Out:


WinApple Icons by ~jatin


WinApple Wallpapers by ~jatin

It's pretty old but very nice by jatin of WinMatrix.com

WinXPro

what does that have to do with this thread?

how did you guys get the screws at the bottom of the screen?

I cant get my alan wrench to fit down there at all...

I'm assuming maybe the powerbooks are different than the ibooks now...

the ibook is pretty easy, the powerbooks i am not to sure about, i am sure the write allen wrench will do it