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BBC: The Mac that Lego built

updated 09:55 am EDT, Mon May 19, 2003

 
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The BBC has a report on a : "Daniele Procida could not bear to see a dead Mac thrown away - so he reconstructed it using Lego bricks pinched from his sons. Rather than bin the Powerbook laptop, he refurbished it using hundreds of colourful pieces, set on mottled artificial green grass. But now the Cardiff Apple consultant is selling his unique creation on auction site eBay, where the cool computer is proving a big hit."


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    link?

    does anybody have a link to the ebay page where that mac is being sold?

    i want to see more (and better) pics. :)

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    ding.

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2729209921&category=171

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    FUGLY

    Man, that thing is F--UGLY!

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    Compubrick

    http://www.applefritter.com/hacks/desktops.html

    Tom Owad has been doing this for years. Ritvik, manufacturer of Lego competitor MEGA BLOCKS supplied him with bricks, which was really cool.

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    again

    word for word from macminute.com and they had a link

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    Re: again

    Oh BS. Just because they use the same quote (presumably in the press release) doesn't make it "word for word". The stories are not identical. Stop being a shill for macminute.com

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    Well, shave my head

    and call me Balmer... $372 for the guts of a 5300? Wonder what I can get if I strip the motherboard out of my G3 and enshroud it in colored plastic blocks :)

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    $$$$

    you're right... seems like an outrageous price for a 100mhz PowerBook 5300

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    NO..

    You are both wrong. The right price is exactly what someone would be willing to pay. (Did you fail Econ 101?)

    If you could make $$$ by making a LEGO case for your outdated Mac you should have done it. Sour grapes idiots.

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    Hmnm

    Wonder how much I can get for my Macintosh Portable?

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