This may be the best use ever for an old MacBook

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This may be the best use ever for an old MacBook
This is not what you think it is. At all.
Photo: by Pablo Rochat

A clever DIY project found a brilliant way to reuse on old MacBook. At first glance, it just seems like an Apple notebook sitting on a desk. Open it up and…

We’re not going to ruin it for you. Just watch the video on Twitter.

It was posted on Twitter by Pablo Rochat, who presumably dreamed up the project and brought it to life.

Even the comments have some fun. Someone who’s clearly a Windows user says, “So there IS a use for MacBooks.” But a Mac fan struck back saying, “I see you’ve installed Windows inside a Macbook.”

Insert joke about MacBook recycling here

If you have an old — preferably very dead — MacBook laying around, and are a bit handy with tools, you might make one of these for yourself. It’s surely even more surprising in person.

It’s a project similar to making old Macs into fishtanks and lamps.

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