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What do you do with an old busted iBook without a usable screen? One MAKE fan transformed the battered machine into a server creatively disguised as a bookshelf visitor [via].

First of all we need to take the ibook apart to remove screen, Optical drive and battery. All of these aren’t necessary since we are building a server, “but what about restoring of OSX, don’t we need the hard-drive for that?” Actually you don’t since you can do it just as well in target mode from another hard-drive. Another thing we need to keep in mind is that we really want to keep the footprint of the ibook as small as possible.

Personally, I can’t think of a better method / use for a busted iBook to live out its remaining days.