PohTayToez

I'm interested in building my own laptop... I've found barebone laptops on MSI, but I can't find anywhere online to buy them... anybody know where I could buy a barebone laptop, and other laptop parts, and if there is money to be saved by building it yourself? Specifically, I'd like one with an intel dual core ready motherboard.

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macnoob

dude buiding a lappy uually isnt worht it. barebones save money i guess. get a good desktop and a cheaplappy thats what works for most people. of course you could decide to go and get a good lappy too, but it desnt make mch sens if you ever touch a desktop during the day, even with travel .

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Ben

He wasn't asking you to critisize his idea- if he was doing that, he would have said..."I'm building a laptop so please flame me". He was asking for suggestions.

I've thought of building a laptop myself. It would be quite fun, and probably worthwhile, though I'm not sure of any other websites with laptop barebones. Maybe a possible search in Google?

If you want to find other laptop parts, go to newegg.com, they have plenty of laptop parts.

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PohTayToez

To start out with, you gotta have a barebone kit, though, because most cases and motherboards are incompatible. Also, I don't think Newegg has case, motherboards, or laptop processors.

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Desktop / Laptop
AMD Athlon 3200+ @ 2.50Ghz / AMD Athlon X2 TK-53 @ 1.70Ghz
MSI GeForce 7800GT / GeForce Go 6150
2 x 512MB DDR / 2 x 1GB DDR2
250GB SATA II / 80GB 5400RPM SATA
2 x DVD Burner / 8X DVD±R/RW

bldgengineer

Try these sites:
http://www.directron.com/laptopdiy.html
http://www.notebookforums.com/

I've found some halfway decent info on those two sites in the short time since seeing this thread. I still believe it'll be more expensive then buying one, but hey, i'm not here to hate but help Have fun!

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