Homemade lap tops?

BLK1985

BLK1985

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Anyone ever build their own Lap Tops? Ive heard that there are some places you can buy the empty cases but I havent been able to find any place and I cant find any place to get the mother boards. Anyone have any links to any places?
 
I would be amazed if someone built their own laptop by buying parts. I've never seen it.
 
Egon said:
I would be amazed if someone built their own laptop by buying parts. I've never seen it.
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Ive never seen it either, but I heard it was possible, since empty cases are built and Mother boards. I just cant find them anywhere.
 
I don't think it's possible, since laptops come in all sizes the mother boards are design to fit them. This would mean you need to use desktop motherboards and I heard ASUS tried that and it worked but the specs where disapointing specs because to big of a motherboard means cooling issues, and size problems.
 
sure is possible to an extent i did simmilar soet i brought a lappy case with just the mobo in it and went from there
 
It's very possible. The most common way is to buy a barebones kit which includes the display, chassis, motherboard, and GPU. Then you pick and install the processor, memory, hard drive, wireless card, etc.
 
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[-0MEGA-];1138131 said:
It's very possible. The most common way is to by a barebones kit which includes the display, chassis, motherboard, and GPU. Then you pick and install the processor, memory, hard drive, wireless card, etc.
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ive never done that, chris pirello did a segment on this on youtube, called, how to build your own laptop, he said that it was not possible because parts are only made for that laptop and there not interchangeable, he said if you were to make you own laptop there wouldnt be a very easy way to get rid of heat,
 
ronster667 said:
ive never done that, chris pirello did a segment on this on youtube, called, how to build your own laptop, he said that it was not possible because parts are only made for that laptop and there not interchangeable, he said if you were to make you own laptop there wouldnt be a very easy way to get rid of heat,
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just a noob said:
http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/diy_notebooks/
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Exactly. That video is lying to you, first off the processor, RAM, and hard drive are all interchangeable and don't use proprietary connectors. What they are probably referring to is trying to replace the motherboard in a laptop with something different, or perhaps the video card.

Some video cards use a standard connection and are interchangeable, however quite often they aren't. That's why barebones kits include the chassis, display, motherboard, and video card.
 
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