How To Build Your Own Laptop
Building your own PC is easy, but is it even possible to build your own laptop? Surprisingly, the answer is yes, but it all depends on how you define "building" a laptop. There are many different ways to get the exact laptop you want. Why is it difficult to build your laptop? One of the greatest strengths in the desktop PC world is that everything is based on open standards. So CPUs, graphics cards, motherboards and other components are all built to fit together in a standard way. The problem with this approach is that it wastes space and is not very efficient. That doesn't matter if you're putting a tower computer on your desk, but if you need to carry a computer around, it needs to be compact. While the technology in a laptop is still fundamentally the same as in a desktop computer, the actual design and form factors are not. There are few (if any) standards for designing and building laptops. Laptops are crammed with custom ...