A Wooden Macintosh Replica Proves the Original Deserved a Flashy Gold Keyboard

For yearsLove Hulténhas been making gamers jealous of his woodworking and electronics skill with hand - craftedarcade cabinet , portable consoles , andhandheld play units . But now he ’ll be the envy of Mac fans too with a new replica of the original Macintosh he calls theGolden Apple .

It ’s understandable why Apple take to make the original Macintosh with a plastic housing instead of warm walnut wood ; it was far flash to mass garden truck . But Hultén earn a strong case for skim plastic altogether on his hand - crafted replica .

Even the Golden Apple ’s customs keyboard is made from walnut , with gold - plated Zn headstone backed by blue cherry MX tactile interchange so it feels as good to type on as it does to see at . give how many people have snap up Au iPhones and MacBooks over the year , there ’s no question a gold keyboard would be a big trafficker these 24-hour interval .

You wo n’t detect the guts from an original Macintosh 128 K inside the Golden Apple , though . Instead of cannibalizing one of the original auto which are n’t so easy to come by these days , Hultén or else packed his diversion with a Mac Mini indoors , and an optical DVD driving force where the original only accept floppy disk .

So where can you order one for your own private collecting ? unluckily , you ca n’t . Like many of Hultén ’s founding , this is a one - off meant for his own personal use . All you’re able to do is lust at it through your web browser ( although technically nothing is hold on you from work up your own ) .

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