Has anyone ever done anything like this? I've been building desktops for 8 years now, but as I'm heading into college I really need a decent laptop to do word processing on/light gaming.
Most people will probably just suggest a pre-built, but I like to tinker with this kinda shit. Options like RAM, HDD/SSD's, desktop/mobile CPU's, mobile GPU's and battery options sounds really fascinating to change up. Also it'll probably be cheaper in the long run, since I'm buying everything once, instead of having to buy a laptop with 4gb of ram and a little HDD, and then swap it out for 8 GB RAM and a speedy SSD.
However, upon googleing for barebone Laptops, I'm met with almost nothing. A few articles back from like '08 with reviews for barebone laptops.
Anyone have any experience with laptop building? Can anyone give any links to buy barebone laptops? Finally, if you have built a laptop, can you recommend building a laptop?
[QUOTE=EagleEye;41317228]Has anyone ever done anything like this? I've been building desktops for 8 years now, but as I'm heading into college I really need a decent laptop to do word processing on/light gaming.
Most people will probably just suggest a pre-built, but I like to tinker with this kinda shit. Options like RAM, HDD/SSD's, desktop/mobile CPU's, mobile GPU's and battery options sounds really fascinating to change up. Also it'll probably be cheaper in the long run, since I'm buying everything once, instead of having to buy a laptop with 4gb of ram and a little HDD, and then swap it out for 8 GB RAM and a speedy SSD.
However, upon googleing for barebone Laptops, I'm met with almost nothing. A few articles back from like '08 with reviews for barebone laptops.
Anyone have any experience with laptop building? Can anyone give any links to buy barebone laptops? Finally, if you have built a laptop, can you recommend building a laptop?[/QUOTE]
Honestly, I don't think its possible. I think the closest you can possible get to that is ordering a custom built (as in you pick the parts from a limited selection and they put it together) laptop which are usually ridiculously overpriced. It really would be nice if laptops were buildable, but they are barely even upgradeable. Maybe I'm wrong. I don't have much experience with it, but obviously not many people do.
You'd be best to buy a small cheap-o laptop for portability and word processing, and built a small lan-box style rig for games.
It'd be cheaper, and you'd get more for your money than buying an 'ultrabook' or someshit, especially assuming since you've built comps for a while, you'll save money on parts and you'll already have a monitor/keyboard/mouse.
Almost all laptops allow you to increase the ammount of RAM in them, and some higher end laptops also allow you to change the GPU (MXM GPU's).
These are however overpriced and not worth your effort.
ZeMole's solution is better.
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