Engadget unveils Ben Heck's Xbox 360 Laptop mk2

24 Comments by Christopher Grant Apr 17th 2007 1:24PM
Filed under: Hacks, Microsoft Xbox 360

Ben Heck has been busy, indeed. When he isn't busy gutting Xbox 360 controllers and cramming the guts of a Sixaxis into the hollow carcass, he's apparently gutting Xbox 360 consoles and cramming them into custom enclosures with integrated HD screens and keyboards (TID be damned). Engadget has pics of his latest revision, the Xbox 360 Laptop mk2 (sucks to be you, mk1) but all they're showing now is the finished product. Not to worry though, Ben promises an exhaustive three-part how-to (à la Wii laptop) soon.

Tags: BenHeck, Engadget, xbox360laptop

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Dolla Dolla: Apr 17th 2007; 1:34PM

*tears up*

It's beautiful :'(

Sloar: Apr 17th 2007; 1:36PM

The sad part will be when this gets the red ring o' death. Then the owner will be totally screwed.

Ian Von Porter: Apr 17th 2007; 1:39PM

This is a really clean design... except for that power brick. It should be integrated. And, how about one with two optical drives.. DVD and HD-DVD.

Jack of No Trades: Apr 17th 2007; 1:44PM

Beautiful piece of technology.

Neal: Apr 17th 2007; 1:52PM

@ Ian Von Porter

Integratig the power brick would make it much too bulky and possibly lead to overheating. I think its awesome the way it is.

Jack of No Trades: Apr 17th 2007; 1:53PM

One thing technology needs to improve on is power consumption.

Intentless: Apr 17th 2007; 1:55PM

Sadly these days everybody is trying to make everything as big and powerful as possible without taking efficiency or waste into consideration... dang consumerism... BTW that is a beauty...

Neal: Apr 17th 2007; 1:56PM

From the pics it looks like it has integrated WiFi...

Microsoft, are you taking notes?

KineticOnline: Apr 17th 2007; 2:06PM

All hail the mighty Ben Heck and his Xbox 360 Ultimate

Kye: Apr 17th 2007; 2:11PM

Ben Heck

I tip my hat to you sir.

Seriously though, why hasn't one of the manufacturers hired him yet?

BIGGEN: Apr 17th 2007; 2:33PM

@sloar
wow, haven't heard that one before. your originality is unrivaled.

i guess we could play ps3 and wii and, oh, wait, there's no games for either. my fault. my originality just rivaled yours.

BIGGEN: Apr 17th 2007; 2:34PM

BTW, i have all three consoles, so stop the (shutters) fanboy remarks before they start. K?

Arglor: Apr 17th 2007; 2:57PM

That is a nice looking rig. I'd love to have a 360 gaming laptop (if it could also port the video to a tv as well).

On the other hand, I agree with sloar that modifying your 360 probably breaks waranty and that seems to be unwise as they could* scratch discs and fizzle out. But kudos for the experimental approach. I even liked the controller idea, even though i'm a fan of the dualshock design (sixaxis appears to be a very similar design concept.)

Anthony: Apr 17th 2007; 3:12PM

Yeah, uh... pretty sure if heck can get the 360 in there he could fix it if it red ringed. with the price i'm sure he charges for these mods i bet he offers to repair them for a fee (if not warranty them)

Anthony: Apr 17th 2007; 3:14PM

did i mention that i want this very badly? what's next? a 250gb hard drive partitioned so the 360 gets 120gb and 130gb goes to the pc (accessed via embedded kvm)they could share cooling too. ooh i have such good ideas

Frankenstein Black: Apr 17th 2007; 3:42PM

BEN, YOU MAD, MAD, MAN! PS3 NEXT PLEASE ;^)...
PS If you don't, I will (with liquid cooling too boot)...

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Frank Black a.k.a LDM
Water-bending Master
http://www.eternal-champions.com/images/ldm_master_builder!.jpg

Patrick: Apr 17th 2007; 3:54PM

next the ps3!, dont car though as i dont want one, but how about now that youve turned th consoles to portables yout urn the portables into consoles!!! sounds crazy enough to work?!

actually, if he could cram all the portables into a console that would be awesome

Tom: Apr 17th 2007; 4:26PM

Next make the PS3P... it would be a giant replica of a PSP with all that fancy PS3 hardware inside.

vagrant pistol: Apr 17th 2007; 5:08PM

Its nice except, it's the wrong green. Thats the old xbox color. Need the re-paint to the new green.

Poisoned Al: Apr 17th 2007; 7:22PM

He said he didn't want to do another laptop so sorry PS3 fans.

Tho Ben did umm and ahh at the idea of a ZX Spectrum portable!

*UK nerd sqweel of delight!*

Grant: Apr 17th 2007; 9:21PM

Ben Heck is my hero.
Seriously.
All of his mods are awesome and professional.
I don't see why game companies don't comission him to design somethings for them, obviously he's more than capableof squeezing big things into little spaces.

Quando: Apr 18th 2007; 4:13PM

I look forward to the Wiiptop! Whip it! Whip it good!

Eschatos: Apr 19th 2007; 8:45PM

And if Microsoft could mass-produce these and sell them, they would be rich beyond imagining. Oh wait, they already are. JK.

jon: Apr 28th 2007; 11:31AM

next make a sega-dreamcast-latop!

haaha

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