Reply to Some advice on my S4 Frankenstein job?

The justification:

After mixing trance, electro, and progressive for the past year, I've finally moved on to the champagne of electronic music: Tech House. I now find that I have the brain power to mix four decks and use four fx decks. After forgetting my laptop across the state, I used my big tower rig with a 1080p monitor to play with the s4 a little. Instant addiction to the screen real estate.

Came across a little money after selling a part of off my open wheel race car and decided it was time to upgrade from my pos 13" windows laptop. I decided I wanted to run osx due to the random issues I had with my windows rig..... I was soon to find that to get a 1080p or higher Macbook I had to get a current generation 17" pro....

Came to find that most of these current gens 17's are at least $1600 used... F that shit... I decided I'd rather build something odd... I needed to brush up on my solidworks anyways.


Decided to build some kind of a hybrid between an s4, hackintosh, flight case, and big ass 22" led monitor. The chassis will be made of 3x3in t6061 aluminum angle and flat stock welded together. I ordered a bunch of brackets, hardware, and corner covers from fastenal... including a nice locking hinge for the monitor. Also managed to find a bunch of electronics bulkhead fittings to replicate the back of the s4 on the outside of the chassis.

I decided to control the computer with a magic touchpad/keyboard connected by a "magic wand". I have some nylon round stock that I'll notch to allow the assembly to slide in and out of the front of the chassis.




.....Alright that was a little long... the actual point of this post is to crowd source some ideas before I actually weld the thing together and finish it up in the next few weeks. You can see in the last photo I had another iteration in which the chassis included my kontrol x1... I decided it would be better to ax that idea and just use a smaller psu to keep the footprint down. In this final form the monitor will actually fit inside the footprint when folded down.