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is it hard to build a laptop?

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Al Neri

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im looking to put together/obtain a laptop for not too much money.

i have some laptop ram and a harddrive at my house, is it hard to get a case/battery/psu and cd kit? or should i just buy one put together.

Thanks
Don R.
 
It's really quite simple to build your own laptop. Why do you think so many people have been doing it for all these years?
 
I don't think you can build your own laptop. Laptops usually use proprietary designs but they do allow you to upgrade your ram and hdd and maybe the cpu.
 
I can't imagine it being an *easy* task....

Just look at how small the components are, and how they have to perfectly fit together in order for it to work.....building desktops is one thing, but laptops...I a'int touchin that one 😛
 
I'd recommend taking one apart, piece by piece, and then putting it back together if you really want to build one, as opposed to starting from scratch. 😉
 
Originally posted by: Shawn
If you consider impossible to be hard, then yes, it's hard.
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Oh, it's possible.

You pick a model, and you buy all the proprietary parts for it...shell, screen, motherboard, optical drive...and then you buy a hard drive, processor, and RAM separately. Sure, it costs you more than just buying the whole thing at the beginning, but at least you can say that you built your own...sort of.😛
 
You can buy barebone kits, those are basically laptops without memory, CPU or HDD. After you buy one you'll have to supply missing components (see above - memory/cpu/hdd). While it works in some countries where prices on laptops are artificially inflated, here, in the US you're better off buying a dell/toshiba on one of the deals they have.

Other than buying barebone laptop no, you cannot build one.
 
Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Can you forge plastic shells in your garage?
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i didn't build my p180, nor my cd rom drive, nor my motherboard, nor my power supply. if you think about it, 'building' an desktop isn't that far removed from buying a barebones laptop, and 'building' an XPC is almost exactly the same thing.
 
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