Gold is also an immunomodulatory agent, so I wouldn't break out the champagne just yet. This could have a serious impact on whatever ecological system the tree happens to be in.

Mocha and orange. Interesting choice to really set them apart, I suppose. The leather will get grimy about as quickly as most any other hand rest, but it's a bit trickier to clean and care for, I expect. Must do wonders for steampunk convertability, though!

@scrapplejoe: Actually, I still use my iPad a lot. Now that the novelty has worn off, I found that I don't carry it around just as much as before, but it's still with me a lot of the time.

Having read the post about it, I have to say it's both ingenious and ingeniously simple.

@BadJoJo: From what I understood - so take it with a grain or two of salt - AirPrint allows printer sharing for iOS devices.

There's a difference between taking a place up on a deal and being a bad tipper. I always tip, and I usually end up tipping "more than I should".

Interestingly you left out the little caveat HardMac.com added to their how-to: Don't say we didn't warn you.

@wjbean: That's exactly my point, though: If the board, or rather that three piece board, is proprietary, that pretty much could limit the kind of hardware that goes inside the box.

@Odin: I've actually had cases like that. Now I grant you that usually those were USB ports or cable tunnels, but that's beside the point.

@apj: I suppose, but really, how often do you "swap" the motherboard? Every time I replaced that component, what I was really doing was building a new system: CPU, usually GPU plus a memory upgrade. Not necessarily all in one go, but still more or less completely.

@wjbean: Wouldn't that make the entire system proprietary, though? In that case, this case would go from "nice try" to "hell no" pretty quickly...

@Denver is too damn high: Take a powersaw to the side grills. Extra props if you manage to work a custom fan grill into the design.

The biggest issue I see is connectors: Eventually, something new is going to appear, if only because it forces consumers to forsake systems exactly like the one pictured. That, or take power tools to the case in order to make way for new ports.

@JDickson87: I agree wholeheartedly. The motherboard really is the choke point: Any way you look at it, replacing it basically re-builds the computer from the bottom up.

How long until this upgrade finds its way into Camino? I've been using the osx-specific build precisely because it was noticeably less laggy and memory-intensive. If Firefox4 can actually deliver on that, consider me a prodigal son returned.

That is just wrong on so many levels.

@Stetrain: That was epic. Mostly because it has Christopher Walken in it.

@Koiwai: Well, I do have one of their mice which I got cheap off ebay. I occasionally hook it up to my MBP13 to play a little quake3 with the boys.

@njdevil: The Razer keyboard looks neat. Not so sure about the mice.

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