MacBook Air Innards Merged With Wireless Keyboard and Magic Trackpad

MacBook Air Innards Merged With Wireless Keyboard and Magic Trackpad

MacBook Air Innards Merged With Wireless Keyboard and Magic Trackpad

Genius. In the style of Atom-embedded computer-in-a-keyboard solutions like the Asus EEE Keyboard, a plucky modder gutted a partially dead MacBook Air and crammed its workings into an old, heavily modified Apple Keyboard casing, precisely topped by an Apple Wireless keyboard and Magic Trackpad snuggled together.

The result? The MacBook Air Project, an all-in-one Mac-in-a-keyboard: just plug in a monitor to the MacBook Air keyboard’s DVI port and you’re ready to rip. Hey Apple: this is what the next Mac mini should look like!

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  • http://www.oakbog.com Adam Rosen

    That’s a great hack, reminds me of a modern day Commodore 64!

  • Al Christensen

    And left-handed people shake their heads.

  • WTAprill

    OK, that is officially, for-the-record, totally cool as f$#@!

  • Stephen

    Beautiful.

    +1 re Commodore 64 similarity (or Vic 20!).

  • anon

    If you check out his blog, you’ll see it can be set up for lefties!

  • http://www.paythegame.net somian

    The cooling seems to be non-existant :X i wonder how long this thing is running.

  • ErinsDad

    OK, that’s just cool.

    And I feel better knowing there is one less MacAir being dropped on its corners and denting. (Saw that twice at airport security lines in the last month. Yes, I have seen a grown man cry.)

  • Mystakill

    @Al Christensen,

    The keyboard and magic trackpad are both *wireless*, so they could easily be rearranged for lefties.