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Laptops. To paint, or......well, to paint.

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I bought this laptop in September, so that I could have something to use at school. It is a Fujitsu Lifebook P1120. An 800MHz Transmetta Crusoe processor, 256Mb of ram directly soldered to the board, and ATi Radeon Moble. It was barely powerful enough to play a decent quality movie, but it could play one for almost 3 hours, with the volume up all the way. It had built-in wifi, 30gb hard drive, super-battery life, and a touch screen. I will not buy another laptop without a touch screen.
I don't know where the before pictures are, I think I took them right before my parents used my camera. Who knows.
Anyways, I didn't like the greyish purple color of it, so I decided to paint it.
Krylon Fusion for the blue, and Krylon smei-gloss black primer, as well as more than 20 coats of Krylon clearcoat(can you tell I like Krylon yet?)
I took it apart, and it wasn't the first time, either. I sanded it down, and cleaned it all up.

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I brought everything out to the garage, after evicting my mom's van and setting up some buckets.

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After everything was painted. Took almost two weeks to get this far. Several coats, then dry, then wet-sand. Over and over.

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I decided not to paint the keyboard. When I was about this far, I realized that I needed something more powerful to run PhotoShop, so that I could look at all the .raw images that I dumped on it. Which is one of the reasons I bought this instead of an EEEpc, because it had a real harddrive, and a much bigger, touch screen.

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Here are some artistic pictures. In real-life, the blue is much darker. You also can't see spots on the black paint. Next time, I will use grey or something, as the black it just to difficult to work with sometimes.

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See.......I left the power button (on the screen) that grey/silver color, so the keyboard wouldn't look so out of place. I also didn't mess with the external floppy or DVD drives, or the power brick, or stylus. It is just a dummy stylus, though.

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I use the bigger laptop as a media center, and was in the process of adding some videos to it, and decided to show you just how small my P is.
A standard sized, 15" notebook.
Crazy, huh?

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Right after the first time I painted the bottom metal thing part, my sister was on my table, looking for the ultra-über glue. She spilled some, and it got on the bottom. It can only be removed with acetone, which just happens to remove paint, :( and it wasn't like I could ignore almost 2 quarters thick of ultra-über glue just sticking out from the bottom.
All in all, I think this was a fun project, and I will do it again with my next machine. Expect this one up on eBay in a few hours.

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