Building a Portable Xbox

Step-By-Step Instructions for Making an XBox 360 Laptop

© Robert Janelle

May 1, 2007

Love the Xbox 360 and wish you could take it everywhere you go? Well, Engadget has the answer, with this handy how-to on building a portable Xbox.


Microsoft seems to be the only console maker without a portable system.

But rabid DIY-er Benjamin Heckendorn shows how to fix that with a few, um, not so simple, modifications to an ordinary Xbox and a laptop.

The step-by-step instructions were posted at the popular gadget blog Engadget in a series, that begins here.

For the technically challenged, the project does look pretty scary. It involves dismantling an XBox 360, adding in more fans and hacking up an LCD monitor. Oh yeah, it's certainly not cheap, either.

It's probably worthwhile for anyone who travels a lot and ends up trapped in hotel rooms with those annoying televisions that you can't connect a console to. Or maybe someone whose got the money and technically skills to have who wants a very interesting conversation piece/something to brag about.


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