Get Rid of Your MacBook Warranty Once and For All

What does a MacBook Pro, Sony Puppy FIU-600, and a Dremel have in common? Put those three together, and you end up with ~~a destroyed MacBook~~ a built-in thumb reader.

Needless to say, this mod isn't for the faint of heart. Even the modder himself accidentally scuffed the casing of his MacBook. This obviously voids your warranty, so don't try this at home.

Step 1: Cut a hole in the case:

Step 2: Do technical stuff to make it all work:

Step 3: Check if the MacBook still works:

Step 4: MacBook, Meet Thumb Reader:

Not worth the effort!

Posted by Aziz on October 22, 2007

Yeeeaaaahhh... then when it doesn't work... how do explain to the Mac store why I was cutting a hole in my MacBook Pro??? Because I'm Wile E. Coyote and I got this kit from ACME???

Posted by Douglas on October 22, 2007

The guy who did this mod works as an Apple technician.

Posted by Masin on October 23, 2007

Ruins all. ACDT/ACPT

Posted by It sucks on November 01, 2007

I'd rather just have a Pro that works and has a waranty.

Posted by Feartec on December 01, 2007

I disagree. The fingerprint reader is a worthwhile feature, and one of the few black marks *against* a MBP when comparing against PC hardware.
"Not worth the effort?" Perhaps not, but Apple should include a fingerprint reader in the next gen MBP. (and a couple more USB ports)

Posted by jeffm on December 04, 2007

Not going to do that to my beloveth macbook

Posted by banter on December 23, 2007

I stopped doing this after my C64 era...

Posted by big joe on December 24, 2007

finger print readers are way to easy to fool why would you do this better to not lock your mack

Posted by fillip on January 09, 2008

keep trying...

Posted by theriantrope on February 21, 2008

hi my name is lindsay i am very very very veery very stupid and weird

Posted by lindsay on March 29, 2008

Hi i am chris and i think you are very funny lindsay

Posted by Christian on April 02, 2008

hi i am i am fred and i agree with lindsay

Posted by me on April 04, 2008

You should have done this on a 17" Macbook Pro, it has wider grills.

Posted by B-RED on April 09, 2008

Waste of time, who needs een fingerprintreader when you can identify yourself using a password. It might be "cool" but its unnesessary. and thats probably why it's not build in already

Posted by Midge on May 06, 2008

good concept... but poorly implemented

Posted by Anonymous on May 07, 2008

I hate Jews

Posted by Adolph Hitler on May 26, 2008

i like u chris

Posted by lindsay on June 05, 2008

I think it could work but you would need a apple opener/wirer to do the connecting and who needs one biult in when you can get usb ones from most pc stores and one last thing who in the world has enough guts to do that with a R21,500 mackbook pro I definatly wouldn't

Posted by Chris on June 23, 2008

You know, some people take the web too seriously. Learn to laugh; learn to roll with it.

For the rest of you, I can only stare awkwardly.

And by the way, yeah, this mod isn't worth it, but it is so cool FTW!

Posted by Nojathan on June 24, 2008

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Posted by Zerp Kurla on July 02, 2008

What's the point! Mac OS X won't recognise the fingerprint reader. So you end up typing in the password anyway me thinks.

Posted by Jason on August 08, 2008

Like it.. but not going to do it on a MacBook Pro.... -.-

Posted by Wesley on August 13, 2008

Well..
I dont know anything about computers :)

Posted by Kayli on August 13, 2008

-.- *slap*

Posted by Wesley on August 13, 2008

lol, I'll slap you back wesley :P