Ben Heck's PlayStation 3 Laptop

[bandit]

Ben Heck is truly the modding god. Not only has he brought back old gaming machines back to life with newly refreshed look, hes also made a one-handed controller and has even stepped up with transforming a full next-gen console into laptops! But his latest achievement is a PlayStation 3 Laptop! It took 14 on and off months to build this masterpiece.

Want this?! You can! This is the only one Ben will make but it is being auctioned off for charity. More information to come.

Specs:

• Original 60 gig PS3 model with backwards compatibility.
• 17" HDTV 720p screen, with HDMI connection. (Same as last Xbox 360 laptop)
• Built-in keyboard and stereo audio amplifier.
• Measures 17" x 13.75" x 3" (actually thinner than a stock PS3) and weighs 16 pounds!

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Source: Engadget

[Triv1um]

Nice.

Its stupidly big though, and weighs a bloody tonne, 16 pound is the weight of a heavy bowling ball (14 pounds is the average full weight bowling ball, but you can gets 15's and 16's)

[ExcruciationX]

Dang, if I had spare cash, I'd buy it just to piss JKKDARK off. :P

[DPyro]

Wheres the composite and HDMI outputs? What happens when I want to play PS3 on a big screen?

[Shrygue]

That's looks rather good actually, I woudn't mind having one.

[Napalm-Death]

$#@!, I actually want this. I wish he'd make more.

[Mc_Logical]

It has to deff have linux! to make it feel more of a laptop too lol and as for a mouse? I would put a pull out plate on the right side, maybe a panel fold out from underneath, because when u wanna take it places

[F9zDark]

Haha nice. Just when I was thinking how sweet it'd be to have a portable PS3

He better release the instructions online or something, because that would be ****ing cool.

[Accordion]

As much effort as it took, the lack of HDMI output, onboard game controller, and battery make this more pointless than most of his efforts.

Though playing PS3 on the train would be fun.

[F9zDark]

For a first attempt its great. Now that he knows "how" to make a PS3 into a laptop he can later refine the construction and make a better one.

About the HDMI port, chances are he used it to plug the monitor into. Computer monitors only come in 3 flavors mind you: VGA, DVI and now HDMI. Assuming he used a computer monitor, chances are, its input was HDMI or even DVI with HDCP (which would again, require the HDMI port, since there are DVI-HDMI adaptors).