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| I never see anyone talk about building a laptop. Are the parts and cases not available or do they cost much more than the prebuilt ones? my buddy just asked about building one and I told him I'd research it. A quick look on Newegg turned up zip for a laptop case. |
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| Custom parts do not exist and getting them from a brand would not be cost effective.
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| Surely if you had an old laptop you didn't use anymore, but were reasonably happy with the case.. You could in effect just be "upgrading" a few components.. but actually change everything, then in effect you've built a laptop..?
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It would be cheaper/simpler just to buy an updated spec model. My System: Home Build
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Strange how noones ever thought to launch into that area.. To work properly though I suppose all PC Companies.. or a lot of them.. would need to all "launch into it"
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| Building a laptop is not the same as building a desktop. 99% of people couldn't do it in the same way desktop builders can. There is no market for it. |
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| You could likely sort of fake it with a really small form factor like pico-ATX in a laptop case. But that's more trouble than it's worth!
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| Basically - there aren't the parts to do it easily.
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| I suppose it could sort of be possible, if you bought a load of second hand laptops, then you can take the parts out of some and put them all together to make a new one, however it would be very cost ineffective. And wouldn't be as good as a new laptop as the only parts you could buy to make it even close to a good price would be faults laptops (some components would work) but all those would be old laptops.
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| Thanks folks. I figured that was the reason the more I thought about it but wanted to be sure. There are other things I thought were kind of crazy that turned out to be possible. |
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