When Apple started its move from Intel to Apple Silicon a few years ago, the company promised to deliver higher performance and reduced power consumption and so far Apple has largely delivered on that promise. But the company’s first desktop computer with an M1 chip? It didn’t really take full advantage of the processor’s low […]
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Comprinter is a DIY laptop crammed inside a printer for no good reason
Have you ever looked at your laptop… then at your all-in-one printer/scanner/copier and thought they’d look better if they were smashed together to make a single device? Probably not. But there’s still something oddly compelling about seeing it happen. Mason Stooksbury took apart an old Dell laptop and an old Kodak printer and put them […]
Micro Lego Computer: Tiny PC with a case made from LEGO blocks
Want a small computer that you can use in the office or the living room, but don’t want a model with a boring plastic or metal case? How about one made from LEGO bricks? Not good enough? How about if you make it stackable… just like a LEGO brick? While people have been building PC […]
C64p is a netbook with the guts of a Commodore 64 (kinda)
Ever wished there was a laptop version of the Commodore 64 computer? Now there is. One hardware hacker has taken apart a netbook and replaced the screen, processor, and nearly every other internal component to turn it into a portable Commodore 64 with a 7 inch display, a touchpad that works as a joystick, and […]
Lilbits (2-18-2014): Pack your media PC in a lunchbox
A home theater PC is, by definition, a computer designed to hang out near your TV so you can send videos, music, or photos to the big screen. But just because the natural habitat of an HTPC is the living room doesn’t mean you can’t move it from place to place. Hackaday found one hacker […]