All entries for Monday 13 December 2010

White to black

Follow-up to Red to green. from Mike's blag

I acquired a lid from an iBook G3 which, unlike my G4, has a clear plastic case with paint on the inside. So I striped the paint off and re-sprayed it. I chose black. Partly because the G4 iBook has a grey strip around the middle of the case, so the result is a case that is white on the bottom, grey in the middle and black on top. (The photo below totally fails to show the grey.) Largely because I had a can of black paint. Though said can turned out to contain only enough paint to cover about a third of the lid, so I ended up having to buy another can.

The result is this:

The new lid is a bit beat up, but no more so than one would expect. It's also currently held on with only three screws, the forth having fallen in to the sofa. I can't figure out how to retrieve it at the moment.

Not sure if it the result was really worth the effort, but one has to try such things sometimes.

Mike Willis : 13 Dec 2010 22:00 |  Tags: Apple Ibook Mod |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem