Building a Notebook/Laptop

[Jakub1]

So my mom asked me to build her a notebook or a laptop so she can carry around and take it to work and all that. But I know building laptops are difficult and finding parts can be even harder(read some online guides about it). She said she wants a performance notebook, so obviously itll be even harder. Its not going to be used for gaming at all either. So my questions are building laptops as difficult as people say? Are there any benefits to it? Where can I find parts for one? Really, any help, tips or guidness will be appreciated.

 

[anbello262]

Building laptops is nearly impossible, from my point of view. You are better off just buying one, maybe a customizble one. A HP envy laptop, for example, would be a nice choice.

 

[USAFRet]

You can't 'build' one like you would a desktop. There is no standardized parts sizes like ATX.
For instance, there is no standard 'laptop case'.

At most, you can select from a limited set of options at your preferred seller.

 

[smartkid95]

years ago I remember reading an article about "building a laptop" but I put that in quotes because I really wouldn't consider what they did building. They purchased a barebones laptop with just the chassis and screen with motherboard and graphics and installed their own cpu, ram, hard drives, and batteries. But all in all it wasn't really worth it because for the money a prebuilt laptop with the same specs could've been purchased saving all of the trouble. I'm not sure if any of those websites are around anymore I'll have to google, but what I do know is that their really isn't any benefit in building a laptop. If you really like to build things then maybe it could be a fun project but that practicality of it kind of makes it not such a good option to build one.

 

[smartkid95]

In fact it was actually right here on toms where I read that
http/www.tomsguide.com/us/diy-laptop-whitebook,review-1286-8.html

 

[smartkid95]

That product never really took off. It was just a barebones laptop that was easy to customize.

I kind of figured that like I said it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to try to build your own laptop. I really didn't consider that to be building anyway more like do it yourself customizing

 

[dasulman]

It can be done, but its not the done thing - if that makes sense, it's actually more expensive, I think just find her a decent ultra book and she'll be happy, unless she does some graphic design or movie editing the ultrabooks are more than good enough.