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More info?)
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 15:11:11 GMT, JT <spam@dcplus.dyndns.info> wrote:
>On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 09:58:15 +0100, Paul Hill
><paul.hill_nospam@clara.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>Phil wrote:
>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>I've built many PCs from scratch but never a laptop. Is there much
>>>>difference? Is there anything I should keep in mind. Any advice would be
>>>>appreciated.
>>>>
>>>>thanks
>>>>
>>>>matt
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This must be one hell of a crazies idea
. Forget about it 'cause it is
>>> "ALMOST" impossible for a person to build a laptop from scratch.
>>>
>>> I said it's "ALMOST" impossible, but in the end your home-built laptop will:
>>>
>>> 1) The finish product/laptop or what ever it might look like might not work
>>> (very likely).
>>> 2) Will probably would take you 10 years or so to get all the right parts
>>> and to make them work together.
>>> 3) More likely will spend much, much more $$$ to buy individual parts (if you
>>> can find it -> see #2) than just go out and buy a current top of the
>>> line laptop.
>>>
>>> So basically it's not very "smart" or feasible to build your own laptop.
>>
>>There's some (well, at least one
crazy dudes out there that have
>>built Amiga laptops. I've see one - it looked like a brick!
>>
>>I suppose if you started with an old dead laptop something might be
>>feasible (Micro ATX?).
>
>1. MicroATX is too large. Mini-ITX (Via Epia, etc) might fit.
>2. LCD display requires custom controller, not VGA.
>3. Battery would be a problem. Even if ran on AC, PSU would be a problem.
>
>Could probably do a lunch box style. Still companies that sell the
>enclosures, etc. After you have done that, you have spent enough for 3
>really nice laptops.
I seem to recall that micro ITX (or at least a version of it) included a mini
onboard AC power supply. If that's true, it could form the basis for a decent
transportable PC (more like the original "laptops" than the current
"notebooks"). That would mean better serviceability, better upgradeability, can
select any compact VGA LCD monitor, and most importantly (for me anyway) a
PROPER keyboard grafted on. Not totally out of the question.
Tony (remove the "_" to reply by email)