Building a Laptob - is it possible??

benjo plz. · 27 Jun 2006 at 14:43

Yewen said:
but seems a thermal grading number for the CPU and GPU

CPUs already have a thermal guideline and you just stick to that when upgrading with laptops. The main problem with diy laptops is the i/o ports on the cases/boards which aren't universal or standardised.

Yewen · 27 Jun 2006 at 14:51

Yeh I know they do, but the suggestion I read was a grading number for the output, to make it even easier.

Only quoting what I just read.

kidloco · 27 Jun 2006 at 14:52

Get the latest issue of CUSTOM PC mate, its got a guide on building laptops, including all the places to buy from etc. interesting read

ATI · 27 Jun 2006 at 14:57

ohh damn my flat mate had it and i looked at it, i need it now

Davey D · 27 Jun 2006 at 15:10

kidloco said:
Get the latest issue of CUSTOM PC mate, its got a guide on building laptops, including all the places to buy from etc. interesting read

Never heard of that Mag before. is it any good? is it weekly/monthly, and how much is it? lastly where do you get it from? i presume somewhere like WHSmiths will sell it?

Yewen · 27 Jun 2006 at 15:17

They do sell it, quite a good one and the best one about for the hardware enthusiast, but all the info they publish is usually available online a few days before at least.

Azza · 27 Jun 2006 at 15:18

Davey D said:
Never heard of that Mag before. is it any good? is it weekly/monthly, and how much is it? lastly where do you get it from? i presume somewhere like WHSmiths will sell it?

WHSiths do sell it. Its monthly. Its a brilliant magazine (im a subscriber) all hardware related. Also a recent PCFormat Issue also had a sectrion about building your own Laptop. Both are very simialr, but i think the CustomPC tutorial is better.

Datamonkey · 27 Jun 2006 at 15:18

Check out this months custom pc mag,

has a front page spread and quite good look at building your own laptop

meh 10 mins too late like lol, didnt read the thread, am at work.

well thats my excuse an im sticking to it

Yewen · 27 Jun 2006 at 15:37

How much is a subscription to it?

Also, having trouble finding the mags website addie, anyone got a link?

Datamonkey · 27 Jun 2006 at 15:38

sorry i dont know the site addy,

asda always have aload in lol, if you have on local. mine got them in on sat i think it was

benjo plz. · 27 Jun 2006 at 15:40

Yewen said:
Also, having trouble finding the mags website addie, anyone got a link?

Guh, try http://www.custompc.co.uk/

Google it Noob.

Energize · 27 Jun 2006 at 16:43

Phnom_Penh said:
He can only ask or rtm, he's only an Underboss.

Would be better just to get rid of that catagory altogether and just made them mods instead, because theres not really much point in the underboss user group.

Darkwave · 27 Jun 2006 at 17:21

squiffy said:
Acer TravelMate 2413LCi - LX.TAC06.089

Don't think I do not appreciate you speccing me a laptop, I really do, and it's an extremely nice laptop (way better than I would need in fact) but £365 is unfortunately just way beyond what I would be willing to spend on it, especially considering I wouldn't be using it for anything but web browsing/shopping and IM.

It'd be perfect if I could find a sub-£200 laptop with a crap processor, 256MB of any crap RAM, a hard disk as small as 5GB, with integrated wireless and a good battery life. All I can find though is either great laptops as above for £300+ or laptops in my price-range, usually second hand, that are not even worth using because they're like Pentium IIs with 64MB RAM etc.

Energize · 27 Jun 2006 at 17:23

Úlfhednar said:
Don't think I do not appreciate you speccing me a laptop, I really do, and it's an extremely nice laptop (way better than I would need in fact) but £365 is unfortunately just way beyond what I would be willing to spend on it, especially considering I wouldn't be using it for anything but web browsing/shopping and IM.

It'd be perfect if I could find a sub-£200 laptop with a crap processor, 256MB of any crap RAM, a hard disk as small as 5GB, with integrated wireless and a good battery life. All I can find though is either great laptops as above for £300+ or laptops in my price-range, usually second hand, that are not even worth using.

You could always get a pda.

Darkwave · 27 Jun 2006 at 17:25

Energize said:
You could always get a pda.

Hmmm, never really considered that! I don't know anything about them.

*Goes to look at PDAs.

*

Yewen · 27 Jun 2006 at 20:12

PDA's are great if you have a use for them, use mine for outlook and msn integration.

Ideal if you have a use, expensive toy if you do not!

Darkwave · 27 Jun 2006 at 20:22

Yewen said:
PDA's are great if you have a use for them, use mine for outlook and msn integration.

Ideal if you have a use, expensive toy if you do not!

Just made a spec-me thread with a PDA I found for only £115. Would be grateful if you could take a look for me. Mostly just planning to use it for MSN, forums, shopping etc. while I CBA chaining myself to the PC, will also be very useful to store all my mate's contacts on as I assist him in running his DJing business.

Yewen · 27 Jun 2006 at 20:36

That sounds ideal, web browsing on them is ok but obviously a small screen so a little awkward, but easy enough to browse OcUK shop and the forums on it.

The more complex online shops are harder to browse as the OS I have does not support flash.

Will take a look.

Darkwave · 27 Jun 2006 at 20:40

Yewen said:
That sounds ideal, web browsing on them is ok but obviously a small screen so a little awkward, but easy enough to browse OcUK shop and the forums on it.

The more complex online shops are harder to browse as the OS I have does not support flash.

Will take a look.

Thanks a lot for taking a look for me, I know naff all about PDAs except that, so far, they seem like a hell of a lot cheaper alternative to a lappy for what I need to do on it. I don't use any shopping sites that use flash, so that's lucky. Will mainly be using it for MSN, web browsing will be a secondary function and it'll be basic hardware sites like AnandTech and Firing Squad mostly.

Yewen · 27 Jun 2006 at 20:45

Its suited well to them and news sites, you can get PDA based feeds of sites like Tomshardware.

What you really need is a 200mhz+ processor and 8mb+ ram for web browsing at speed.

I have a Axim X50v but I use it for a base of all the work I do, cost me £200 and was top of the range 18 months ago.

A cheap low end Axim would sort you out, all rounders that would get you sorted with databases running and multitasking some music with web-browsing and some light gaming.