Yeah I'm sure it's a dumb idea, but my college is willing to give me money to do it and it could be fun. I wanna put together a custom laptop and am slowly doing research and gathering ideas. I'm well-aware of how much work it would be and that I'd be hopping into something I'm not educated on but oh well! One thing I'd love to do is get near desktop-level power in a laptop form without making the thing 2 inches thick. Again, it's a wild thought, but my university has money to burn.
So one solution I have is to rob a gaming laptop of its mobo and other soldered-on components. This is the easiest option, but that's boring.
Idea 2 is to take a mini-itx or micro-atx/itx board and plug in all my own parts. The issue is that these suckers are thick as can be. What I want to know is if it's plausible to replace the tall stuff on such a mobo with shorter parts: so the capacitors, mosfets, chipset heatsinks, io, etc. I figure that these are just soldered or otherwise attached on and that different parts could be swapped in instead, but I could be wrong. I also do have access to people who actually know what they're doing when it comes to computer science.
Thoughts? Thanks!
So one solution I have is to rob a gaming laptop of its mobo and other soldered-on components. This is the easiest option, but that's boring.
Idea 2 is to take a mini-itx or micro-atx/itx board and plug in all my own parts. The issue is that these suckers are thick as can be. What I want to know is if it's plausible to replace the tall stuff on such a mobo with shorter parts: so the capacitors, mosfets, chipset heatsinks, io, etc. I figure that these are just soldered or otherwise attached on and that different parts could be swapped in instead, but I could be wrong. I also do have access to people who actually know what they're doing when it comes to computer science.
Thoughts? Thanks!