So, I'm buying up xbox's now I'm going to start a couple of worklogs for what I plan to do.

First up is a completely unmodded (software wise) xbox laptop. I aim to make this right around an inch thick.

That's really about all there is to say on it right now... Hopefully this worklog will be taking off soon enough.

I know the jewel is upside down... It's supposed to be that way... When you open the laptop, suddenly it's rightside up (you know, in case you have never paid attention to a laptop before)

ALSO: ROAR, I REFUSE A TOPIC ATTRIBUTE!

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just one question. Why not soft-mod the thing? but other then that I'm looking forward to seeing this

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Yeah, not sure why you wouldn't at least soft-mod it. It's not like Xbox Live is a factor anymore.

I'm really looking forward to this though. Original Xbox doesn't get much love.

Yea, honestly shooting for 1" total thickness without softmod is unrealistic. The dvd drive in the box is standard desktop sized.

Super excited for this either way.

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It is not completely unrealistic. The drive will be thinner than the mobo when I'm done.
Basically, making it top loading rakes around 3/4 inch off the height of the drive.

I'm not nodding it just to make it that much more impressive.

Depending on how this goes, I may turn around and make a modded one with Linux and a keyboard/touchpad... Just because...

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still.... I think putting the 5 minutes it would take to soft-mod it would be worth it. even if only for playing some *ahem* games "bought" online.

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No softmodding? I dunno, I'm going with superben and Zero here. I would softmod it if it was I.

But do it your way. It would be pretty impressive to see an Xbox portable that wasn't internally modded in some way.

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That's all there is to it, tbh. Just a "It would be pretty impressive"

If I build another, it would be modded just because it makes sense... but I'm not a person to do what makes sense first. It's less fun that way.

If someone wanted to buy it from me, there would be absolutely nothing stopping them from modding it, or paying me to mod it and put in a nice big hdd to hold all of your legally ripped from cd on this this xbox songs, and your massive collection of gamesaves that you earned entirely by yourself. ;P

The most unrealistic aspect of the 1 inch thing is that I plan to have a screen, and the one I'm using is 1/4'' thick in of itself. The case will add close to 1/4'' to the height of everything, leaving me slightly less than the height of the hard drive to shove everything into... I don't see the DVD drive as much of a problem at all height wise, though. I'm more concerned about how big a CD actually is in comparison to a 15 inch laptop. The xbox motherboard is 9*9, so I'll need to have the disk spinning over it, and I still have to find a place to shove the LVDS board when it comes in.


The screens I have to choose from, the bottom right one being the most likely choice for this one.

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I understand the "not soft modding" argument. I designed an Xboxp that wasn't soft-modded over the summer (no it's not built yet) and Beta was like "That is going to be large. Soft mod it and take out the disk drive and replace the hdd with a laptop drive." But there is something magical about literally taking the parts given to us by MS and shaving and stretching and cramming and making a portable out of it. I made a conscious decision to accept the authenticity challenge, because I think it's something worth pursuing. I applaud ttsgeb for pursing it too.

Hardmods/TSOP flashes are the way to go when it comes to Xbox modding anyways.

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