Rig of the Week: PowerBook with USB cooling fan

Had nothing to do with being too cheap as the PowerBook is fully repaired and I'm on a MacBook Pro now. My little fan hack made things work so I could get work done. The fan hack was more about doing something just for sh*ts and giggles.

I only paid about $20+tax at www.ifixit.com for a replacement fan. High five to those people for such a great site and rapid service.


Josiah! Thanks for the Viddyou love. =)

A new fan, official Apple part, costs about $50 - I replaced one this summer. (and my macbook sounded amazing in the last minute of the old fan's life! Like a jackhammer!)

First, I think "Rig of the Week" is incorrigible. This isn't [H]ard|OCP. But, regardless, what happened to the elegant setups of big systems that looked super sleek or were out of the ordinary. This is just dumb. Who cares that this guy was too cheap to replace the internal fan. It looks like crap.

OMG!!!! I love apple hardware, but what you can do to it this way is simpley AWESOME!!! Alluminum is outdated now, modern computers should all have aluminum and GIANT PLASTIC FANS WITH NOS LOGOS on them, especilly if their laptops!

"sninesix" is Ryan of http://www.viddyou.com - a pretty cool video sharing site that everyone should check out. :)

Man that is funny. I was like damn, I wish rig of the week would come back. And i cliked my TUAw bookmark, and bam there it is. Sweet.

That's nice if you don't ever want to tote it around again. I'm pretty sure that both the keyboard and fan can be replaced with drop-in replacement parts, and make it mobile again.

Not terribly mobile anymore though huh.

Um...how much does a new fan cost?