Computery goodness
Oct. 27th, 2010 02:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
growler_southI just spent a delicious 5 hours modifying my wee Sony Vaio C1-MT, installing a USB hub, WiFi card and Bluetooth card internally. This involved soldering wrapping wire to pads so tiny I had to use a microscope to make sure I wasn't bridging any.
And the damn thing works! The internal WiFi card, having no outside antenna, gets fairly poor reception, but it works fine for around the house. The bluetooth connects to the PCMCIA bluetooth mouse without drama, and the whole thing is a couple of pounds lighter thanks to removing various unneccesary circuit boards (Memory stick reader, anyone?) and the old hard drive (replaced with a CF card).
It even runs snappily, thanks to puppy Linux.
I was so pleased with myself I celebrated by ordering a new Macbook Air. (Thanks Wulf!!)
And the damn thing works! The internal WiFi card, having no outside antenna, gets fairly poor reception, but it works fine for around the house. The bluetooth connects to the PCMCIA bluetooth mouse without drama, and the whole thing is a couple of pounds lighter thanks to removing various unneccesary circuit boards (Memory stick reader, anyone?) and the old hard drive (replaced with a CF card).
It even runs snappily, thanks to puppy Linux.
I was so pleased with myself I celebrated by ordering a new Macbook Air. (Thanks Wulf!!)
