Free Modding Technique Guides for Laptops and Notebooks

Do you want to personalize your portable computer? Looking for modding instructions for laptops or notebooks? Here is a collection of fancy laptop and notebook modz, explaining how to prepare a laptop for painting and airbrushing, as well as other modding techniques. If you have written a free modding guide yourself (or if you know of a report not linked here), please submit a new entry.

PHKL	Pink Hello Kitty Laptop modding.
YZPL	Yellow Zipper Pokemon Laptop modding.
Laptop Painting Guide II	(incomplete).
Yoshi's Mods: Project Mobile Style	Paint your laptop and add custom designs with the TSS mod master.
Acer Aspire 2023	Illustrated step-by-step take apart and painting tutorial.
Apple iBook	Clarus: How to enhance the original Apple logo.
Apple iBook	A nice little modification of iBook.
Apple iBook	Moddings, overclockings and disassembly (in French).
Apple iBook	FurBook: are you tired of your boring naked laptop? get furry!
Apple iBook	TronBook: how to remove the paint and spray a blue color on.
Apple iBook 600	A beautiful painted laptop lid (in French).
Apple iBook Dual-USB	How to mod, overclock and disassemble (in French).
Apple iBook Dual-USB	A repainting for fun & and profit.
Apple iBook Dual-USB	FlowerBook: a beautiful lid painting.
Apple iBook Dual-USB	The i-Tablet: how to turn an iBook into a Tablet-PC.
Apple iBook (Blueberry)	FrankenBerry iBook (case, light, hard drive mods & upclock), add a white halo logo to the lid.
Apple iBook G3	Here's the result of some spray paint, sandpaper, and a little creativity, presenting: steelBook.
Apple iBook G3 466 SE Indigo	CyBook: how to add some blue LEDs to the case.
Apple iBook G3 12''	A SkyBook paint mod.
Apple iBook G3	How to modify the color of the Apple logo on the back of your iBook. This process is surprisingly simple. By simply removing the back of your iBook's screen you are enabled to place colorful plastic behind the glowing Apple on the back of your screen. Read on for a step-by-step tutorial complete with pictures to guide you.
Apple iBook G4	Deep insights: a skeleton modding.
Apple iBook G4	How to remove the display and change the color of the Apple logo.
Apple iBook G4	How to get a color modded machine.
Apple iBook G4 1.33GHz	A logo color change tutorial.
Apple PowerBook G4 12''	A movile about a MCE Tech 16X Dual Layer Superdrive upgrade, new 100GB Hard Drive, and custom-made colorful rainbow logo.
Apple iBook G4	Everything you need to know about modding, overclocking and disassembly (in French).
Apple PowerBook	Laser Etching. The appropriate files, laser settings, and methodology for putting your tattoo on your powerbook.
Apple PowerBook 1400	This one isn't really Mac stuff it just happens to be a PowerBook that has been bejeweled. I guess you could glue LEGO(tm) to any computer that strikes your fancy.
Apple Powerbook 5300	Daniele Procida could not bear to see a dead Mac thrown away - so he reconstructed it using Lego bricks.
Apple PowerBook G3	A galore of information about modding, overclocking and disassembly (in French).
Apple PowerBook G4	Plenty of great information about modding, overclocking and disassembly (in French).
Apple PowerBook G4	Bringing Back the Rainbow Apple Logo 12 Inch Powerbook Style!
Apple PowerBook G4 15''	Poison Powerbook: how to make the backlit keyboard glow red, Apple logo color mod, keyboard cleaning and take apart instructions.
Apple PowerBook G4 Titanium (TiBook)	How to take apart and paint the notebook.
COMPAQ Presario	Painted laptop art: The City - Oil on Laptop.
COMPAQ Presario 1800	How to use PolyGFX's Adhesives a laptopskin which resembles the quality of airbrush, but it's cheaper and it's removable.
COMPAQ X1000	How to personalize a laptop by giving it a nice painting.
COMPAQ N.N.	Do it yourself notebook paint job.
GateWay 2000 ColorBook	Some pictures of a painting preparation.
Sony VAIO PCG-R505TSK	Painting a laptop case.
Tandy 102	A retro case modding experience.
N.N.	Modding a laptop with stickers.
N.N.	How to remove label and stickers.
DELL Inspiron 8600	How to install LEDs into your laptop.
DELL Inspiron 8600	How to paint a laptop.
DELL Latitude	A Dual Dragon dremeled into the case.
DELL Latitude	Manufacturer logo replaced with Silver Dragon.
DELL Latitude C600	Legnatile: how to make a wooden laptop.
DELL Latitude C640	How to replace the manufacturer logo with a dragon.
DELL Latitude C640	A beautiful dragon case modding.
HP OmniBook XE2	Laptop Case Mod - Respray your laptop, an illustrated tutorial.
IBM ThinkPad (unknown model)	Using cellophane to convert a liquid crystal display screen into a three dimensional display (3D laptop computer and 3D camera phone).
IBM ThinkPad N.N.	Make a stencil, and custom spray paint your laptop.
IBM ThinkPad 701CS, X20	Mirage-Coloring: how to airbrush the lid in red, an illustrated guide (in Korean).
IBM ThinkPad 770	Moonlight Illumination, Modifying with LEDs.
IBM ThinkPad X20	How to replace the original manufacturer logo which is attached to the lid (in Korean).
IBM ThinkPad X31	A nice paintjob tutorial.
IBM ThinkPad N.N.	How to replace the original IBM manufacturer logo at the laptop lid (in Korean).
Medion N.N.	A step-by-step take apart and painting mod tutorial (in Italian).
Panasonic CF-35	Airbrushing paintjob on an old laptop.
Zenith 320L	Moonlight Illumination: The Inside Story, Modifying the case with LEDs .
Toshiba Portege 3010/3020	Easy repair, replacement and customisation of parts: memory upgrade, hard disk upgrade and lid painting.
Toshiba Portege 3110	Painting the lid with metallic car paint.
Toshiba Portege 3110CT	Lil' Hello Kitty Laptop Mod.
Toshiba Satellite Pro 440CDx et. al.	Painted laptops and other goodies.
Toshiba T3400CT	Moonlight Illumination: The Inside Story, Modifying the case with LEDs .
Toshiba (unknown model)	A nice laptop painting.
N.N.	Nice painting of an old 486-75 laptop.
From Laptop to Blunt-top	A story of Modding.
RapTop	A typewriter-faced laptop (in Japanese).
Tussimod	A cuddly notebook modding.