I gotta tell you i love my motorola XOOM. Its just a great device, loads of ram loads of storage an overclocked processor running dual 1500mhz cores, custom built version of Honeycomb, hell it even has a barometer!
So why on earth have i gone and taken it apart and attacked the casework with 240 grit abrasive paper ?
Its not a good look is it ? .. well just go along with it for now and take the back of your Xoom by removing the 2 Torx screws on the bottom edge and slide the cover down, it will snag half way requiring you to use a very slim screwdriver down the back of each edge to release it,
There you go its wide open so you can see the lovely internal build structure now, so take a deep breath and start sanding away that silver paint the cover is layered with, start with a medium grit like 240 then go for 400 leading on to 600 – 800 – 1000 -final abrasive wet and dry 2000..
Ahh now look at that! a brushed alluminium look rear panel for your Xoom, but it looks more or less the same as when it was painted yes?.. okay time to go for it with a metal polishing kit, its like using a cloth on the end of a drill with a bar of soap !!
Fire up the cordless drill, attack a buffing wheel, spin off some of that soap and start attacking the Xoom back cover with it, then do it all over again with the fine grade soap! – No im not kidding thats what your supposed to do with this stuff honest..
Now do you get why i went to town on the back of my XOOM, it kinda looks awesome dont you think, a really nice mirror finish does the Xoom justice and makes it look even more attractive and highly tech desirable, it will now need almost daily buffing and a weekly polish with some decent metal polish.
So there you have it, if you fancy having a go and need a little advice im available for questions http://twitter.com/#!/terminal7
…and another picture of the finished product i think….
So there you have it, the mirror finish xoom, highly polished and so much better looking than the factory finished silver paint job. My next project will be to do the same to my ipad2 , a mirror finish ipad 2 sounds quite nice to me. Have fun 
