This mod is absolutely nuts! It feels like a combination of the distant past, powerful present, and imaginative future of computing.

@BillyTheKidCENTURION

17 күн бұрын

Hey :) Yep, it reminds me of the "Retro" period that cars went through. This is back before square, flat, and ultra thin, when companies tried to at least "be different".

So awesome!!! I am just blown away and welcome back sir!

@BillyTheKidCENTURION

19 күн бұрын

Why thank you :) I'm glad you stuck around for so long between videos! I'll try to get some more content pushed out shortly,I'm watching a Macbook Air M1 logic-board right now and planning my next project.

@danielktdoranie

19 күн бұрын

@@BillyTheKidCENTURION the mad scientist!

Great mod and great video. Love your enthusiasm for that power book. I had a lesser speced power book 165 and I don’ t think I loved it as much to put a mod like that in it 😃 But this was great to see!

@BillyTheKidCENTURION

10 күн бұрын

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it :) The 165c would be an easy modification, it has almost the same size screen as the iPad 3&4, and if you were doing a Raspberry Pi project, you wouldn't have to remove any plastic from the LCD bezel since you can adjust the viewable area using over and under scan :)

Руки мастера творят чудеса... :) Молодец!

@BillyTheKidCENTURION

7 күн бұрын

Thank you, you're too kind :) I hope to get more videos out soon :)

Someday I'd love to modify an old Sony Vaio laptop with modern hardware, seems it might not be too difficult with the right hardware!

@BillyTheKidCENTURION

8 күн бұрын

I've seen several people do Sony Vaio projects with Raspberry Pis :) On his instructables website Frank Adams did one and I think it was a Vaio?

this is so awesome to see! Wish I had the patience and the know-how for frankensteining things together like this!

@BillyTheKidCENTURION

13 күн бұрын

Thanks :) it really wasn't all that hard, I have a very basic background in electronics. You should start with a Raspberry Pi build :)

just stumbled upon this channel, so far I am very impressed with what you're doing! Keep it up!

@BillyTheKidCENTURION

13 күн бұрын

Thanks, I hope to get more videos out soon :)

Great job Billy

@BillyTheKidCENTURION

6 күн бұрын

Thank you sir:)

this is actually insane that would be such a cool project to turn into a storefront

@BillyTheKidCENTURION

18 күн бұрын

Hey..... Thank you :) I've sold many restored and modified Macs to storefronts, museums, and corporate lobbies around the world :) If you do a search on youtube using "Macintosh" and filter it by view counts, the highest view count by a very well known young man who does tech reviews, is of a Macintosh 128K that I restored. I sold it to his staff at a very discounted price, asking that he mention my channel, he never did, and I lost hundreds of dollars on the sale. They used every trick to disguise the fact that it was sold by me to them...... oh well :) I hope you stick around to see my next project :)

@pencilwithlead

18 күн бұрын

@@BillyTheKidCENTURION i’ll definitely be there i loved your video🙌

@BillyTheKidCENTURION

18 күн бұрын

Thank you brother:)

As an owner of a Powerbook 520c back in the day this is......awesome. Loved my PowerPC upgraded Blackbird it was my first college laptop, sold it to help pay for a Bondi Blue imac G3 cause I absolutely had to have a G3.

@BillyTheKidCENTURION

17 күн бұрын

Hello :) I'm glad you liked the mod:)

This video is inspiring, I'm a 20 year old IT student from Serbia that loves tinkering with technology. Now I am thinking of attempting to do the same build but I have access to 3D printers and PCB Board Printing so I was thinking of doing the same thing but instead of running jumper wires I would have custom PCB boards for everything and a new board for the screen buttons. When it comes to the batteries being held and everything else I could 3D print a holder for them.

@BillyTheKidCENTURION

13 күн бұрын

I'm glad you like it :) I was going to do a custom board for the brightness control board, so I could unplug it from the controller board, but since it was only six wires I used the old board.

Welcome back Billy! Great project!

@BillyTheKidCENTURION

19 күн бұрын

Thank you Tim:) I'm hoping to put some more projects out soon.

pretty cool build

@BillyTheKidCENTURION

15 күн бұрын

Thanks :) I hope to get more out soon, I'm trying to find someone to program controller boards for some of the older LCDs.

About the buttons you mapped on the side of the screen, what does all of them do? The bottom left turns the display on and off while the top and bottom right buttons control the brightness. What does the top left button do? Anyways, excellent work! I've seen someone do something just like this! 🔥🔥🔥

@BillyTheKidCENTURION

9 күн бұрын

I'm gad you liked the video Amir :) The top left button doesn't do anything, I was going to use the left buttons as volume controllers for an amplifier, but decided to keep it simple. I don't take credit for the idea, I was inspired by a similar project on hackaday by a person with the alias "Tylinol"

@AmirRazan

9 күн бұрын

@@BillyTheKidCENTURION Thank you for the input!

My... My knees... They're bending on their own... I kneel, Sir Billy! Now if someone could just find a way to put an M1/M2/M3 motherboard inside a Penryn MacBook Pro. I love my 17 inch, but it's worthless power wise nowadays...

@BillyTheKidCENTURION

15 күн бұрын

Thank you you, I'm glad you like the mod :) I'm considering several M1 projects right now, just waiting on the price on logicboards to come down a bit, the Penryn is certainly a candidate for a mod :) Big screens are the future!

Great mod Billy Love it

@BillyTheKidCENTURION

17 күн бұрын

Thanks Dave:) I'm waiting on a video driver board for my old Wallstreet G3 cases with a 14 in screen, I'm going to put a Raspberry Pi 5 into it. I never saw the last part of your G4 conversion project? Did you finish it?

@DavidStahlOLDHAPPyMACs

17 күн бұрын

@@BillyTheKidCENTURION Yes I have not worked on it Need to do the final video on that

Sweet video!

@BillyTheKidCENTURION

18 күн бұрын

Thanks, I hope to get more content out the door soon :)

This is great! Been wanting to do something similar but the thoughts of the keyboard and track pad always derail the idea.

@BillyTheKidCENTURION

19 күн бұрын

Hey man, don't worry about the keyboard and trackpad, after you read the instructions from Frank Adams several times (yep, read it several times), it becomes apparent how really easy it is, and if you need help just give me a call on here :)

awesome work, thank you for the video! what do you think - is it possible to modify MacBook 13 inch 2009 with hardware of modern MacBook Air models?

@BillyTheKidCENTURION

9 күн бұрын

Thank you Alexey :) Which 2009 do you want to modify, the plastic or aluminum model? Either way, yes, they are possible to mod, especially using MacBook Air logicboards.

your skills are second to none, It is a fascinating video! What happened to your finger? 0:18

@BillyTheKidCENTURION

13 күн бұрын

Thank you:) You should check out Rocky Hill, his mods on the iMac G3 and eMacs are mind blowing! I think you're talking about my pinky finger? I was fooling with an M14 thirty years ago and the bolt released closing on my pinky, and it snapped the tendon, it's called a mallet finger.

@Mr1BOSANAC

10 күн бұрын

@@BillyTheKidCENTURION m14 rifle caused that injury?

@BillyTheKidCENTURION

9 күн бұрын

@@Mr1BOSANAC Actually it was a M1A, I was confused by small fragments near the ejector cutout and was using my pinky get at them when the bolt went home, I must have hit the release by accident?

Cool

@BillyTheKidCENTURION

8 күн бұрын

Glad you like it :)

Man u cool

@BillyTheKidCENTURION

13 күн бұрын

Well thank you :)

HAHAHA Clinton Body Count numbers, I love it. Great to see people know about that.

@BillyTheKidCENTURION

16 күн бұрын

Yep..... I started keeping up with the numbers very early.

Молодец! Уважаю

@BillyTheKidCENTURION

9 күн бұрын

Thank you, I hope to get more videos out soon :)

Cool, but other than the case it's not a 520c anymore. Kind of like mounting a Subaru body onto a 4x4 pickup frame.

@BillyTheKidCENTURION

2 күн бұрын

Thank you for saying it's cool, but I don't understand turning around and equivalating it to putting a Subaru body onto a truck chassis by another auto-maker? It uses the cases, keyboard, trackpad, and brightness/contrast control board, from the 520c. A Subaru body mounted on another 4wd pickup, let's say a Ford F-100, is very noticeable, and quite apparent that it isn't an original Subaru, if you are not intimately familiar with the PowerBook 520C, you would not know it's not an original 520C in this project. This is what I don't get about people like you, did the PPC upgrade make it no longer a 520C? At what point does replacing parts mean it's no longer its name plate? I have upgraded a 1972 Maverick with a Chevy 305, Is it no longer a Maverick, I have upgraded a CJ-5 with a 351, is it no longer a CJ-5? Lastly...... where is your video highlighting your work with micro-controllers? Again, thank you for saying the project was cool, but I don't understand what you are going after here?

@imminentdouche2070

3 сағат бұрын

this is damn cool and if you cant see that you're a fool

10:28 - Legendary. 😂

use a 2008 macbook mobo so it will be slow cuz powerbook was slow

@BillyTheKidCENTURION

13 күн бұрын

Hmmmm....... not sure what you're saying?

@sajtcraft3473

11 күн бұрын

@@BillyTheKidCENTURION use a 2008 macbook motherboard

@AmirRazan

9 күн бұрын

He can use any mobi he wants, ​@@sajtcraft3473

So you put new parts in old case. Wow, such an upgrade.

@BillyTheKidCENTURION

8 күн бұрын

Sorry you're disappointed by my video, so I guess your video of an upgrade, demonstrates what an actual upgrade is, and ........ oh wait......... where is your video, I can't seem to find it, perhaps it's being blocked from public viewing?

No you did not put a Mac Pro into a laptop. A Mac Pro is a DESKTOP computer.

@BillyTheKidCENTURION

19 күн бұрын

Hey AA-ron, you focused on one audio skip at the beginning of the video, throughout the rest of the video I clearly stated it was a MacBook Pro. Also you evidently can't read, or comprehend what you read very well, because once again I state that it is a MacBook Pro in the description. Also you don't seem to know your Mac Pro desktops all that well, how many of them have an i5 processor? Thank you for the snarky, silly comment :) Oh, forgot to add..... there is no "Climate Crisis"