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    A Fleeting Glimpse Inside Ben Heck's Modding Dungeon

    Ben Heck's PS3 Slim Laptop is Monochromatic Cool

    Ben Heck's Latest Atari 800 Laptop Could Be His Best Yet

    Ben Heck's Latest Xbox 360 Laptop

    Ben Heck's New Commodore 64 Laptop Going Up For Auction For Charity

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    Dreamcast Tablet Is Cast From The Mold of My Dreams

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    Image of ninjagin ninjagin
    10/19/09

    In reply to A Fleeting Glimpse Inside Ben Heck's Modding Dungeon
    I love the Bill Paxton pinball machine. Oh, Ben Heck, is there anything you can't whore up? #benheck
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    10/19/09

    In reply to A Fleeting Glimpse Inside Ben Heck's Modding Dungeon
    great. Gizmodo has become the TBS of the interwebs. #benheck
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    Image of encyclia encyclia
    10/19/09

    In reply to A Fleeting Glimpse Inside Ben Heck's Modding Dungeon
    That's a big house. Two front doors? #benheck
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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    10/19/09

    @encyclia: I lived in a house with 2 front doors, for a year. It was called a duplex. #benheck
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    Image of romado12187 romado12187
    10/01/09

    In reply to Ben Heck's PS3 Slim Laptop is Monochromatic Cool
    the slim is good looking enough to not be messed with...
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    Image of Danny Allen Danny Allen
    10/03/09

    @romado12187: Eh? The slim is, well, slim and all, but it still looks like a Chinese knock-off of itself.
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    Image of G.O.B.: Come on! G.O.B.: Come on!
    10/01/09

    In reply to Ben Heck's PS3 Slim Laptop is Monochromatic Cool
    Does the racing stripe make it go faster?
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    Image of FiorellaSea lion FiorellaSea lion
    10/01/09

    In reply to Ben Heck's PS3 Slim Laptop is Monochromatic Cool
    The Xbox360 laptop was better. This one doesn't have a keyboard. I still want one but using a bluetooth keyboard seems to defeat the purpose. Cant wait to see the next PS3 laptop.
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    10/01/09

    @FiorellaSea lion: Ben stopped including keyboards on his console laptops a while ago. Something about them not seeing much use.
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    Image of BubbleF**kingBuddy BubbleF**kingBuddy
    10/01/09

    In reply to Ben Heck's PS3 Slim Laptop is Monochromatic Cool
    The closest thing to a worthwhile "gaming" laptop in ages. Too bad he can't install Linux on it anymore.
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    Image of Brett Benedict Brett Benedict
    10/01/09

    @BubbleF**kingBuddy: I would call his 360 laptop pretty worthwhile as well.
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    Image of tastypotatoes tastypotatoes
    10/01/09

    @Brett Benedict:
    I would call anything that Ben Heck makes worthwhile. That guy is a DIY genius.
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    Image of fuzzymuffins fuzzymuffins
    09/13/09

    In reply to Ben Heck's Latest Atari 800 Laptop Could Be His Best Yet
    i still have my atari 400 and the cassette deck recorder. ... and still kicking myself i didn't pay extra for the keyboard on the 800....
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    Image of chauncy that billups chauncy that billups
    09/14/09

    @fuzzymuffins:

    Dude, I loved our atari 400! and I remember my dad sitting for hours transcribing code to record on the tape deck, for some ski-free type game and a drawing prog. I also remember that even in its new state it usually took about 30 tries for that tape deck to actually read the tape.

    That 400 was playable 6 or so years ago, but I think it's been trashed since then.
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    Image of SudeviSparrows SudeviSparrows
    09/13/09

    In reply to Ben Heck's Latest Atari 800 Laptop Could Be His Best Yet
    He said he wished he could keep it for himself but he had to pay the bills somehow? As an internet marketer, I know this guy could make a ton of money with his internet fame(with out having to fill his sites with ads etc). For example - Ben Heck Membership Tutorial Site where he puts up tutorial videos on a regular basis + has a private forum etc. - 1,000 member EASY and charge $30 a month. Bam $300K+ per year for him. Make it $10/month and more members might work too... A few ebooks on clickbank is another easy 6 figs etc.. I guess he is not as much as a dirty capitalist as I am, but if I were in his position I would be making an easy high 6 fig salary just off his modding legend status. Any other IMer knows this is true.
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    Image of Odin Odin
    09/14/09

    @SudeviSparrows:
    And yet it doesn't take an internet marketeer (way to misspell the name of your profession twice by the way) to know that:

    A) Doing this would cause people to percieve him as a sellout and would alienate a sizeable portion of his fanbase.

    B) The sort of people his site attracts wouldn't pay monthly for the kind of service you're describing. $30 is a joke as well. Few people are interested in paying for private forums unless they bring something substantial.

    C) It'd probably be a fair bit of extra workload to provide enough content to justify this service. This would probably detract from both his modding work (which drives his site) as well as the content he posts on the frontpage. Switching all that over to a private pay service would just serve to further alienate his current userbase.

    For a supposed "internet marketeer" you really don't know your target demographic do you?
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    Image of senorbelly senorbelly
    09/13/09

    In reply to Ben Heck's Latest Atari 800 Laptop Could Be His Best Yet
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    Image of Serolf Divad Serolf Divad
    09/13/09

    In reply to Ben Heck's Latest Atari 800 Laptop Could Be His Best Yet
    I had an Atari 800. I loved my Atari 800. I miss my Atari 800 soooo much... sniff. But one has to admit that the best computer keyboard ever was the original IBM PC clicky key keyboard. Nothing every in the history of computing has come close the the tactile perfection of the IBM PC keyboard. It was like a mini-orgasm with every click... OK, not quite but close.
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    Image of weinerschnitzelboy weinerschnitzelboy
    09/13/09

    In reply to Ben Heck's Latest Atari 800 Laptop Could Be His Best Yet
    the monitor is pretty fat for a 15 inch.
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    Image of James Belcher James Belcher
    09/13/09

    @weinerschnitzelboy: The bezel has to be big for the keyboard and the knob.

    Separately, I miss Ballblazer. That game *ruled*.
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    Image of FooSchnickens - BPH Free FooSchnickens - BPH Free
    09/13/09

    In reply to Ben Heck's Latest Atari 800 Laptop Could Be His Best Yet
    As with all of this guy's work, I want one.
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    Image of blehh blehh
    07/05/09

    In reply to Ben Heck's Latest Xbox 360 Laptop
    not enough air holes.
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    Image of nightwheel nightwheel
    07/05/09

    @blehh: It's better vented than your 360 could ever be. (unless you mod it of course)
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    Image of lolgreg lolgreg
    07/06/09

    @nightwheel: whoosh
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    03/31/09

    In reply to Dreamcast Tablet Is Cast From The Mold of My Dreams
    Nah, Ben Heck still wins in the design contest. This looks fine, if a little plain and a little thick, but loses points for not having a slot loading drive. Kudos to the designer though - nice work!
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