Building Own Laptop

March 11th, 2010

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  • May I know how can I build my own laptop? I need all links where I can buy all accesories like I buy for desktop. Best Regards, Kannaiyan


  • The ECS Desknote is the closest thing to a DIY laptop, but it's heavy, and doesn't have an easy to use battery. The only other way is to design every component, but that means you have to invest in the R&D, and find a production facility that will make your custom motherboard in units of 1 - it'll cost about $4000 for a laptop that you could get from Dell for $800.


  • I know this comment is a bit late but it can be done. It will be about the same dimentions as an industrially built one but be about twice as thick. This works, I know from first hand experiance. The MB should be a Mini-ITX form factor, now one should probably use the EPIA MS series-- low profile, standard, very low power, everything on board. These boards are easy to find, the MS series will be out soon so they will be too. With this board there is no floppy channel so an external usb floppy will have to be mounted inside the case; the same for a PCMCIA card slot. (I used the MII series with floppy and PCMCIA onboard but it added 1" to the thickness.) Use an external universal battery mounted inside. Laptop drives are easy to find as well as ram. The slim drives do need the adapter but these are not too hard to find. The screen should be an LCD "kit" that comes with inverter, controller, PSU, and cables. For the KB and mouse there is a "Slim-Mini" keyboard out by Zippy and just buy a touchpad to mount below it. Gateway occasionally sells a laptop style KB-MS combo that looks a lot better. The hard part will be custom building the case and figuring out where to run all the cables. That's it.


  • Sorry I forgot the PSU. You can get a daughterboard PSU from mini-itx.com, just plug the battery into it.


  • You may want to purchase the May CPU magazine. It has an entire section on building your own laptop: Debunking the Black Box.


  • http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/compare.aspx/notebooks?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs Get a dell. You cant build your own but dell will make one that you like.


  • Dear Kannaiyan, Thank you for your question. However, I believe that to answer it well, your question will require more time and effort than the average amount of time and effort associated with this price. Here is a link to guidelines about pricing your question, in the pricing guide: https://answers.google.com/answers/pricing.html If you both raise your price and also post a clarification here, the system will notify me and I will take another look at your question.







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