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I love the idea of modernising old laptops with this approach. I have a ton of (working) old thinkpads and dells I can't bear to part with, would love to upgrade some this way.

I probably would have done the 51nb mod already if I could have just ordered the parts through a regular online store and not the cryptic forum puzzle that was required

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It's a cool project, but it appears that it is more of a Thinkpad 701 keyboard ported to entirely new everything else. Hard to call it a laptop modernization, even though it is a very respectable talent to be able to pull that off.

yeah this one is, but I think that's on account of the tiny footprint of the 701. A larger machine would be easier to modernise with framework bits

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