ibook backlight mod


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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.... :laugh:

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

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a pic of the back of the lcd

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the insert

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the ibook off

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ibook on with backlight on

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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.

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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?

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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.

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

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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.

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.

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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.

Very nice mod :)

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

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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.

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 :/

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