Modding your lap top?

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averagejoe

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What are people doing to mod thier laptops? Espicialy thier top lids. My old Dell insperion 2650 has some scratches and discoloration on the lid. It has had a hard life with its various owners. Would like to make it look preaty again with out havint to spend $100.00 for a new lid. Any ideas on internal mods would be good too. Want to have some fun with this old laptop.
 
Repainting the case shouldn't be too hard. The matte charcoal gray color is probably easier to paint than the later metallic silver color.

Or if you wanted to reconsider buying the top plastic piece, the assembly is available for under $50 at several places when I checked. It also comes with new hinges in case the ones you currently have are loose. Search for Dell and the part number on google for places selling these parts:

5J338 (14" LCD laptop top cover assembly)
5J340 (15" LCD laptop top cover assembly)
 
I don't know what I realy mean. Just looking for ways to personlize, change things, and experimnet with the old lap top. As far as I have gotten so far is taking off the heat sink and putting on some good heat sink coumpound inplace of the pad. So far so good with that. Oh and have put Tinyme lunix in duel boot on it along with Windows XP.

As far as the lid gose was woundering if thier was any thing like we used to use in remote control car racing. Thier was a covering product to go over the plastic parts of radios and chargers called SKINS. Any one every tried the grapics that they make for full size cars to cover a laptop?
 
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