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Guit84 · 11-17-2004, 09:36 PM

Does anyone know of a place that i could buy a barebones laptop system. I'm interested in building one but have no idea where to find the parts. I've built a PC and found all the parts either online or at fries. Anyone know of a place where i could buy an empty laptop case and parts?

4evar · 11-17-2004, 11:57 PM

rjtech.com has barebone systems

Jolt · 11-18-2004, 09:16 PM

do a search for the term "whitebook" (white-box notebook) and you should find a fair amount of stuff

Many people have plugged Compal's barebone units...

mikec · 11-19-2004, 08:28 AM

you're going to have a hard time finding this. laptops engineered to extreme specs, to deal with the heat issues they face. best of luck!!!

sailor · 11-19-2004, 02:14 PM

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Originally Posted by mikec

you're going to have a hard time finding this. laptops engineered to extreme specs, to deal with the heat issues they face. best of luck!!!

Agreed. Laptops, unlike desktops, are specially engineered to be smaller while maintaining speed, and still having to deal with the heat that comes with it. It sucks having to buy proprietary stuff, but in the case of laptops, you'll likely come out on top.

Jolt · 11-20-2004, 10:17 AM

you'd be surprised to see what's inside some of the current-technology whitebook platforms...many of the "desktop replacement" models use off-the-shelf desktop P4/Celeron chips and DIMMs.
Generally a whitebook barebone will come with everything needed except CPU memory drives and wireless card. There isn't much work involved in a whitebook integration...the job takes 10 minutes or less if you've done it before, perhaps 20-30 if you haven't...

11-17-2004, 09:36 PM	#1 (permalink)
Guit84 Upright	Building a Laptop Does anyone know of a place that i could buy a barebones laptop system. I'm interested in building one but have no idea where to find the parts. I've built a PC and found all the parts either online or at fries. Anyone know of a place where i could buy an empty laptop case and parts?

11-17-2004, 11:57 PM	#2 (permalink)
4evar Upright Location: WA	rjtech.com has barebone systems __________________ Hi

11-19-2004, 08:28 AM	#4 (permalink)
mikec I flopped the nutz... Location: Stratford, CT	you're going to have a hard time finding this. laptops engineered to extreme specs, to deal with the heat issues they face. best of luck!!! __________________ Until the 20th century, reality was everything humans could touch, smell, see, and hear. Since the initial publication of the charted electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one millionth of reality

11-18-2004, 09:16 PM	#3 (permalink)
Jolt Insane Location: Over here	do a search for the term "whitebook" (white-box notebook) and you should find a fair amount of stuff Many people have plugged Compal's barebone units...

11-20-2004, 10:17 AM	#6 (permalink)
Jolt Insane Location: Over here	you'd be surprised to see what's inside some of the current-technology whitebook platforms...many of the "desktop replacement" models use off-the-shelf desktop P4/Celeron chips and DIMMs. Generally a whitebook barebone will come with everything needed except CPU memory drives and wireless card. There isn't much work involved in a whitebook integration...the job takes 10 minutes or less if you've done it before, perhaps 20-30 if you haven't...