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Yeah this is ugly.

Lacero said:
This is a neat technique for personalization, although you can say goodbye to resale value.
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I wouldn't be so sure about that. Some people might be willing to spend just as much or more if the design was cool enough and was done with great craftsmanship.

I might actually consider something like that for my powerbook...
 
i woud never dream of doing that to my powerbook. the effect is nice, but when will the novelty wear off? $200 can go to a lot better use than inscibing an already beautiful powerbook.
 
yellow said:
I wonder how "strong" it is though.. I bet it looks ****** half rubbed off.
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As far as I understand it is etched (engraved) into the metal, and therefore would never rub off. I imagine it would start to look rather grungy over time, though, once those little grooves began filling with dirt.
 
Providing you're not going to consider selling it on one day, having your contact details somewhere on the design might be a good idea if you're at uni or somewhere else where there is a risk of it getting stolen.
 
I guess it all matters on how important it is for you to personalize your powerbook.

I can't really see the need to spend money like that - I'd rather have more RAM or something else useful.

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mouchoir said:
You think so? (he asks, hiding the piece of vector artwork he is working on behind another window...)
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hahahahahahahaha.... did you do any of the degree shows this year??? :eek: :eek: :eek: nothing but vector shapes (usually butterflies, trees, leaves, birds etc) and felt tip type... oh and mullets. Mullets were f**kin' everywhere. :p :p :p
 
I think it looks nice. I'd consider doing that if it were my PowerBook and not my company's - I think it's an elegant way to add something of yourself to the PB.

I am a little disturbed that they use a Sony PC to drive the whole etching process though...:p
 
I'd probably do that to my PB if I could settle on a design that would complement the look.

Heck, who am I kidding? I can't even come up with an avatar I really like.:eek:
 
iGav said:
oh and mullets. Mullets were f**kin' everywhere. :p :p :p
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Mullets? As in
Mullet%20No.%2016.jpg
mullet? ARGH! NO!
 
zelmo said:
Heck, who am I kidding? I can't even come up with an avatar I really like.:eek:
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"Zelmo" sounds vaudevillian to me. Perhaps that with a devilish bent?

(holy pringles, the spellchecker had "vaudevillian" in it!! :eek: )
 
Anyone read T3?

Bamfordandsons.com do exctly the same thing with Powerbooks & Ipods (Have appeared in T3 UK edition a few times)

Iv have pics of a Black Powerbook (worth ~£6k-£10k) (Like the new iPods) and a pure Silver iPod (yes Pure silver, worth £1,000)

Ill get some pictures up (dont have a scanner) somehow, they dont appear to be on thier website
 
I think etching my PowerBook is one of the coolest things I've heard in a long while. A simple design, not too complicated or big, would be amazing. My cuurent book falls out of warranty soon at which point I'll probably start tearing it apart, adding new a hard drive, a SuperDrive, and replacing my not-so-professionally scratched lid. Now I'm seriously considering having the new lid etched before I install it. If I'm already gutting my 'Book, I might as well mod the case as well.

$200 seems a little high for a simple etch job, but its a specialty business so its to be expected. If I was a little more daring I'd try to get someone in the machine shop at my University to do it for me for cheap. Honestly though, how often do you just happen upon a laser etching machine?
 
that website takes ages to load and it looks like they only sell clothes
does anyone know who does this and a way to contact them?
 
w_parietti22 said:
Say good bye to your warrenty...
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How would it void it? You arent disassemblying the PB at all. Shouldnt void any warranty.
 
Technically, no, but I'm wondering the same thing myself.

I think it depends on the techie at Apple that you get. Most shouldn't be a problem, but one dope at AppleCare will look at your Powerbook and without understanding how the etching was created, will determine that the etching process must have damaged the Powerbook somehow during the procedure.

Its like when you have a Powerbook with a dented bottom-left corner because you dropped it by accident, and then 6 months later you send your PB in for repair because you Combo/Super Drive doesn't work anymore. That's fine, but one out of 1000 AppleCare techies will look at it and claim that your SuperDrive must have broke when you dropped it, and therefore it wasn't covered under warranty (ie: it isn't a manufacturer's defect). I have read of things like this on this board before, so it wouldn't surprise me if they claimed that your warranty was voided.
 
hahahahaha awesome!!!!:D
i'm getting that for sure!!!:p
does laser etching work on plastic laptops too or just on aluminium?

can someone finally tell me how to contact the people that do this?:mad:
 
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