Lenovo Displays Awesome Arcade Laptop Mod
Hands up who else wants one?
A few months back we spied a blinged out Lenovo at CES Unveiled in New York City. After poking around on the Web, we learned that it was part of a mod-contest run by Intel and Lenovo called “What’s Your Idea of Fun?” and that Lenovo was sending the winners to the world’s biggest consumer electronics trade show.
We caught up with Dean Liou, the modder behind what was arguably the coolest mod present and he gave us a quick tour of his bartop arcade cabinet. Though it looks like it could be used with any 15-inch laptop, Liou’s mod incorporates an IdeaPad Y560, which packs an Intel Core i7-720QM, 8GB of DDR3, a 15.6-inch widescreen HD display, and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730 graphics.
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looks awesome
Just leave it to the Chinese............
That's silly..
Somebody from my part of the world recently did something similar: http://forums.overclockers.com.au/ [...] p?t=930363
So you take a laptop put it in a box plug in a modified usb arcade style controller and this supposed to be some great mod?
Lenono is still a no no for me.
Not a huge mod..
too bulky
That guy is awesome.
here's another arcade mod
http://metku.net/index.html?path=m [...] ndex_eng10
So you take a laptop put it in a box plug in a modified usb arcade style controller and this supposed to be some great mod?Lenono is still a no no for me.
He built that 'modified usb arcade style controller' himself.
http://www.whatsyourideaoffun.com/ [...] rcade-dock
Well, looks nice...but WHY on earth would i want a LAPtop that cAnt sit on my LAP!
He built that 'modified usb arcade style controller' himself.
That was so innovative of him to make something that has been made years ago.
http://gear.ign.com/articles/842/842386p1.html
The last video is title fail. It's not even a ThinkPad.
That looks really cool.
Boring.
I have the lenovo y550 (The Core 2 version of y560) and it's poop. Sure the hardware is great and was cheap but the package sucks. Why do companies pack such great hardware and provide only 1366*768 resolution as the only option? I even saw a MSI 16 inch with a gtx 285 with that cruddy resolution.
Uhm, not that it isn't nice... But, I modded an old arcade cabinet, a neo-geo actually), added more buttons to the console, tossed in an old 21 inch monitor, made a black bezel for the monitor and other nick nacks, threw a pc inside of it, etc, and I have this sweet MAME (multiple arcade machine emulator) that plays literally hundreds of arcade games just like you're playing on a real arcade machine. Too bad I don't have any pictures. Anyway, I was unimpressed when I saw this "single game" conversion.
Single game because he probably had to purchase a pc version of street fighter to avoid copyright issues, he could have mame running in 15 minutes minus the download time.