We have seen cool Mac mods floating around on the internet. Remember the MacBook Air Project? That was a single modder trying to fit an entire MacBook Air under an Apple Keyboard. What we have here is slightly more “conventional”, as it’s something nerds have been dreaming about for a long time: a fully working, portable and usable MacBook Tablet.

The project started in early 2010, but it’s definitely worth a re-link. Modder [Enigma-penguin] managed to build a tablet computer out a Core2Duo MacBook from 2007, whose battery exploded and damaged the case and other internal components. Still, the computer could be fixed and hacked to work again as a tablet device - but many components should have been relocated and adjusted to work with the new input interface.

Putting the whole thing back together as a tablet proved to have some headaches. He worked through problems caused by the addition of a touchscreen between the LCD and the bezel and made the connections work with the screen flipped. The finished product looks so good because the bezel has not been turned around like on other tablet builds. Instead, a viewing window was cut in what would have been the case behind the screen.

You can take a look at videos (there’s one where he plays Starcraft on the newly created Mac tablet) and pictures below. The whole is well-assembled and deserves lots of geek love, but if there’s something we should learn from this is that OS X isn’t meant to run on touch-based devices. It’s interesting and I would definitely pay to have one , but I’m not exactly sure about how “great” it’d be to use it every day. It’s an awesome mod, but it won’t get your things done.

[Lifehacker via Hack A Day]