Would You Like a Panda MacBook?

A MacBook with an identity crisis? That just might be the case. Fortunately, an identity crisis is not necessarily a bad thing. Especially when the end result is a gorgeous Panda MacBook.
Of course, beauty is in the eye of the ~~beer~~ beholder, so you may not find this mod as attractive as we do, but next time somebody asks you which color MacBook to get, just point them to this page..

Panda MacBook - White MacBook with Black Keyboard

Panda MacBook - White MacBook with Black Keyboard

MacBook Mod Tip: If you're going to perform this mod, watch out for the very thin ribbon cable underneath the keyboard.
This should come as no surprise, but the easiest way to find a spare keyboard is through Ebay.

I actually really like this!

Posted by jon on November 15, 2007

It's amazing

Posted by dandoona on November 20, 2007

Yeah, that won't void the warranty or anything....

Posted by Feartec on December 01, 2007

Would the Silicone cover work just as well or would it look bulky?

Posted by Anonymous on December 21, 2007

does any1 no how much this is??

Posted by brodxx on December 28, 2007

i think black with a white keyboard looks better.

Posted by ... on February 11, 2008

Just did this to mine and i love it. Would really love it if i could put the white keys back on. Does anyone know how to do that? The board cost me a total of 90 bucks through Ebay.

Posted by Anonymous on February 21, 2008

Just out of interest, I was looking at doing this three weeks ago or so, and they're called topcases. I So wanted to do this, but it was dubbed a waste of money.

Posted by Mia on February 21, 2008

brilliant!!! ive ordered the topcase im gonna attempt this tomorrow
:)

Posted by Dan on February 27, 2008

Where did you find this case at can you provide a link?:

Posted by Anonymous on March 03, 2008

I orderded one with a apple store to use the keys of a black macbook on a wireless keboard from apple and the topcase costed me around %u20AC100,-
plus the cost of replacing my wired apple keyboard for a wireless made this a quit expensive little joke.
(by the way, I have a black macbook topcase for sale with a pile of white keys with it:P anyone interested?)

Posted by Serge on March 03, 2008

just finished same as above but the alphabet is in white keys
YAAAAY no glitches

Posted by Dan on March 05, 2008

kinda looks like a sony vaio

Posted by chris on March 24, 2008

best mod ever

Posted by me on April 04, 2008

Will this work with the 2.2ghz white macbook? The f5 and f6 functions keys are blank, the the two keys next to the space bar dont have an apple logo, other than that difference will buying a older black topcase work?

Posted by Luu on April 25, 2008

ugh, I can only find one top black case, I guess I'll wait a while and see what shows up.

Posted by him on May 09, 2008

Hey serge, contact me awh1@bigpond.com

Posted by Fatherless One on May 18, 2008

I did this hack, before I discovered this page! My reason was that following an incident with my daughter & a glass of water, my keyboard's spacebar gave up the ghost! I bought a black case off eBay, and was delighted to find that the rearranged function keys of the black macbook worked fine on my 2Ghz Intel Core Duo Macbook.
Happy days

Posted by John R on June 10, 2008

selling a black top case for macbook with white keys already installed, working perfectly. email me at phishattack[at]hotmail.com ill put it on ebay

Posted by Renato on June 18, 2008

what wallpaper is that? i love it.

Posted by Anonymous on June 22, 2008

I am thinking of getting an AppleMac Book, how good is it??

Posted by Sally on July 07, 2008

You mean Apple MacBook :P It's awesome, I have a MacBook Pro and it's awesome. Totally worth it.

Posted by Anonymous on July 13, 2008

actually a panda is black w. a bit of white.not white w. black.

Posted by bobby on July 13, 2008

how did you do this....