And now the conclusion to the Macbook mod post. An inference can be drawn from the title of this post, and the previous post, as to the nature of the content. But let me continue the story of how the macbook came to be. From the initial idea of getting a macbook logic board and making it run again, my best friend and I had been toiling with several ways to display the *repaired* innards of an older macbook. If you would like to see the technical write up, please visit the next post: Macbook Mod III

My alter ego and I, always came back to one simple, yet amazing concept. Some of the possible ideas included: mounting the finished product like a billy the big mouth bass, trophy case style, another idea was to simply finish the plastic enclosure and have a plain, run of the mill, boring see through case, I also pondered mounting it on wood at one point, but it never really stuck. Our back and forth banter (discussions) always came back to enclosing it in an old linksys router case and so that is how this mod was finally finished. After a year of talking and discussing, it is finished and in working order.

snapping the back plate into place.

This will be the beginning of the writeup for my macbook mod. It all began a year ago or so when I decided I wanted to start writing apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch. With this goal came a dilemma; I didn’t have a mac (at the time) to do any coding on and you need a mac to do any sort of development for the iPhone/iPod. To solve the problem, I decided I would buy a broken macbook and mod it into a new case and make it work again, although it would no longer be a laptop. I never really cared for laptops anyway, so it was no harm no foul, plus it would be pretty cool to get back into making things again.

A few weeks after I acquired all the parts and was beginning assembly, I came upon a mac mini from a friend, now partner. This was the kryptonite that nearly killed my beloved mod, as I had no reason to finish as I had a working mac. The months would go by and the mini would peddle away on top of my tower (oh yes, I should probably be using the really good computer I built last year-another expensive working paperweight) while the logic board of the mod would sit on my desk and stare back at me, the two chips staring back at me like a sad pair of eyes.

I would like to start out this expedition into a semi plausible scenario, by stating some obvious assumptions. The first of which is that a zombie outbreak could happen; seems logical with all the other medical things happening in the world. Another grand assumption is that I would somehow not become infected or stranded/immobile during the initial stages of the outbreak. I am also assuming that my friends will somehow avoid infection as well and we manage to meet up. With those three main assumptions taken care of, lets get started…

I believe that after the initial detection of the outbreak, most, if not all, governments would declare martial law and mandate that everyone stay in; life would come to a stand still as the governments of the world try to eradicate the plague of zombies. I assume it will start in one corner of the world and be spread by an airplane load of passengers. They would become infected just by touching an infected surface. If it is airborne, then this expedition ends here and now as the chances of a winnable solution become zero. I believe governments would probably end up destroying whole cities in an attempt to curb the spread of the outbreak and lawlessness would become paramount throughout the world as fear of being in the next destroyed city takes over.