A modder turned a MacBook Pro into a Samsung DeX laptop

It’s not the nicest laptop out there, but this modded 2008 MacBook Pro is definitely the

nicest laptop running DeX — Samsung’s portable desktop software, which isn’t actually meant to be built into a laptop. As spotted by SamMobile, a modder named Kris Henriksen (who also appears to be the co-founder of a Bitcoin payments startup) cracked open an old MacBook and replaced some of its internals with parts that allow it to run DeX off of a phone. Henriksen replaced the laptop’s battery, installed a new LCD controller, and made the keyboard and trackpad work over USB. All of that — and some other tweaks, like getting the laptop’s fan to work — allowed him to plug in a Galaxy S8 and boot into DeX. SAMSUNG REALLY OUGHT TO MAKE A LAPTOP DOCK The whole thing appears to work pretty well, with the only oddity being the phone that’s powering the laptop being attached to the side of the screen. I suppose, though, that building the phone into the laptop would have wasted a perfectly good smartphone.                                                                                                                                                             https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/26/16370176/macbook-pro-running-samsung-dex-laptop-mod