Retasking hardware from dead laptop

[Comdrpopnfresh]

I've all but given up on my Dell E1505 (see previous thread here: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2033844). I'm now wondering what use can be made of the remaining functional hardware:
60GB 7200rpm 2.5" SATA-I HDD
Slim DVD-RW Optical Drive
Multicard Reader (I want to say it's a Ricoh, possibly integrated)
Pre-N mini pci (mini-pcie maybe?) wireless card
15.4" widescreen LCD screen
T2400 1.83GHz Yonah Core Duo CPU (Socket M)
2GB 667MHz DDR2-5300 SO-DIMM (4-4-4-12 as opposed to typical 5-5-5-15 timings)

I considered trying to find a motherboard for the Core Duo to build a HTPC (I've got access to 5 legit win7-x64 pro licenses; no OS expense), but there seem to be only three choices- msi fuzzy 945GM, aopen i975Xa-YDG, and asus N4L-VM DH. MSI and ASUS don’t have very good graphics, the 975x chipset on the aopen has two pci-e x16 slots and can run SLI but has no integrated graphics. I can’t find any new boards, and it seems going with an AMD board with integrated graphics and a new cpu would be a cheaper, more efficient setup.

Is there any use for the harddrive for my desktop? I have a 1TB drive, a 640GB drive, and a 250GB drive already. Between the three I have a system partition, page partition, storage partition, backup partition, and the 250GB drive for TV recording.

 

[dawza]

Well, if you have any interest in building an ITX system and want to reuse some of the components, here is an AOpen board that will take your CPU, wireless card, and RAM:

http://www.logicsupply.com/products/i945gmt_fsa

As far as other uses for your 2.5" HDD, you could always get one of these hot-swap racks and use the drive for backup:

http://www.cyberguys.com/product-details/?productid=25439

 

[0roo0roo]

driving the screen separately is next to impossible as far as i know.
ebay has a market for screens.
people break em all the time. but unless its a higher res 1080p or so its not going to fetch that much since the new ones don't cost all that much in the first place. but well 50 bucks or whatever is 50 bucks.

 

[Comdrpopnfresh]

driving the screen separately is next to impossible as far as i know.
ebay has a market for screens.
people break em all the time. but unless its a higher res 1080p or so its not going to fetch that much since the new ones don't cost all that much in the first place. but well 50 bucks or whatever is 50 bucks.

might look into that. Just figured it'd be kinda cool to mod the side panel of a case to house the screen, and then set it as a sideshow display or a pc stats/health display. Which would be a crap-ton of time/work commitment- so thanks for advising the yellow brick road is a no-outlet.