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building laptops?

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hungrygoose

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tutorials?...general information?....where to buy all the parts needed?....yada yada yada......i'm wanting to start building them for my upcoming business that i'll be opening in the middle of next year
 
I hope your an electronics/computer engineer. Because that is not an easy task.

The ONLY way I've seen people build their own laptops is Asus makes some notebook "barebone" kits. But it already includes the motherboard, LCD, CD, floppy casing and keyboard and what not. All you do it add a hard drive, cpu, ram.

As far as tutorials... Umm if there were some then there would be more people making notebooks. Thats why Dell pays their engineers so much to deisgn such things.

And parts is a really tough thing, there are some notebooks that use regular desktop CPUs (but mostly junk ones). You might have some luck with larger distrubiers such as Ingram Micro, but you have to purchase usually very large quanitites to even order from them. Your going have to get some contacts in Japan or something so you can buy raw LCD modules. Plus manfucauter your own casing keyboard etc etc the list is very long.

Anyway my point is it's not like desktops where everything is modular and almost everything works in everything else.
 
Define building notebooks? From scratch or from kits? The Computer Place here in Gaithersburg technically build their own notebooks but its all from Asus kits (IIRC). I have also noticed that over the past couple of years, they do not always sell notebooks so I'm not sure if there is a supply problem or lack of demand.

What is the warranty situation going to be? Notebook tech support sorta reminds me of the old vet joke regarding horses (broken leg: shoot them; cholic: shoot them; etc. etc. etc) since there just is not that many parts in the notebook to change without gutting it for a new motherboard.
 
Yeah the desknotes are pretty cool idea. However keep in mind that you will be having no built in battery though you can order external ones, they are bulky and heavy. Don't think of Desknotes as a laptop though, more of a desktop replacement.
 
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