Xbox Laptop Complete

Sangheilios · Post by **Sangheilios** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 6:41 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjpflGv_ ... re=related
Pretty cool. Amazing that no one here has seen it before, at least not to my knowledge, since it's not on the completed projects page. I've got two craptops that look just like that. One of them we don't really need so I think I might be able to convince my dad to let me cannibalize it.

I would definitely remove the optical drive and replace the harddrive with a 2.5" notebook one though. Then I could actually keep the keyboard. That would be a great place to put an XBMC box with Mimesis installed. I just wonder how he got the laptop LCD to work with the Xbox?

Sangheilios · Post by **Sangheilios** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 6:45 pm

The site's going rrrrreeeeeeaaally slow, and I thought my first try lagged out. So mods delete one of these threads please.

ghosstt · Post by **ghosstt** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 7:59 pm

not real. Its just a video. You can't use a laptop LCD.

Sangheilios · Post by **Sangheilios** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:06 pm

No it's real that's why all the guts are in the case. To use a laptop LCD you just have to have the appropriate controller board, it's not impossible. Also he could have put a separate standalone monitor in.

Post by **marshallh** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 11:10 pm

Looks quite honestly like he took the cover/keyboard off a laptop and is using a video capture card. That RF shielding definitely ain't homemade.

Gamerdude · Post by **Gamerdude** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:25 pm

Sorry, but, that is 100% fake. There is nothing at all that has been hacked other than half the laptop get removed. Look at it, those are laptop parts, not x-box parts. Anyone who knows anything about computers could tell you that. That was defiantly a laptop HDD (not the stick X-Box one),Optical Drive, MOBO, CPU, and RF shielding. That is how the older, cheap laptops were laid out, the fans were on the far right corner and most other peripherals were on the opposite side to avoid thermal damage to any components.

timmeh87 · Post by **timmeh87** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:33 pm

You guys are starting to sound as dumb as the youtube comments

If you were going to try to put an xbox in a laptop, wouldn't you /WANT/ to use a laptop hard drive? its not like you cant switch the hard drive in an xbox... Im pretty sure every portable xbox on this site used a laptop drive.

But, an "appropriate controller board" for a laptop LCD is a bit farfetch'd (lol pokemon), as it would have to be third-party or homemade. Quick google reveals nothing on VGA controllers for laptop screens except 100 noobs asking if it can be done. Homemade? no. if someone spent that much time on it they would have left a longer comment or at least their real name.

Now, I think marshall has the right idea here. What I can tell you is that all he did was remove the keyboard and flip it over (thats the metal thing on the bottom half). He probably never even had it open.

Also, the Xbox DVD drive is about twice as thick as any modern laptop, and you cant use any kind of PC drive (you need the copy-protection bit IIRC). That does not look like an Xbox dvd drive.

Most likely, the xbox is sitting right behind his laptop, (perhaps on the floor behind the bed) hooked up to a video input. Look at 00:04 of the movie, when the camera briefly sees over the top of the laptop, and quickly looks away. Suspicious? For the rest of the movie, the camera remains the same, not ever moving or showing you the area behind the laptop. Normally people show off the connections on the back of their portables.

The controller cable also appears to be twice as short as normal. Perhaps its going twice as far - theres nothing to indicate its actually plugged into the laptop.

Kyo · Post by **Kyo** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 2:06 pm

another thing: Look at HOW the controller cable is going into the laptop. (Asides of the cable being way too short), if it was plugged in there, it would look different, it would stick out.

tom61 · Post by **tom61** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:39 pm

Yeah, thats fake. Standard laptop motherboard and shielding shown.

However, a few notes:
One of the best kept secrets of eBay is that you can get VGA LCD controllers from eBay for around $50US from Hong Kong. You'll need a VGA compatible replacement BIOS on the X-Box though, or you could spend around $90 for a controller with composite input.
With a mod chip you can use a laptop DVD drive on the X-Box. Also, according to one guide on xbox-scene, you can use one on an unmodded X-Box if you take the controller board from the X-Box drive and leave it hooked up to the mutant power connector.

Electric Rain · Post by **Electric Rain** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 7:55 am

Kyo wrote:another thing: Look at HOW the controller cable is going into the laptop. (Asides of the cable being way too short), if it was plugged in there, it would look different, it would stick out.

I noticed that too. I also noticed that he doesn't show the game being inserted into his laptop's drive. At 0:02, the drive is barely sticking out about a half an inch. Then at 0:07 he pushes it in, never showing that there's even a disk in the drive. He could have at least gotten a second copy of the game to insert into the laptop for more proof that it was real.

Also, I've never owned or used an XBox, but the screen wouldn't ever be blue before you insert a game, would it? If it was on, wouldn't it just sit at the BIOS?