Anyone here made a whitebook and howcome laptops haven't gone the way of the desktop PC and people get to make a machine with their own specs?
Anyone know who is selling laptop shells to make whitebooks?
Anyone here made a whitebook and howcome laptops haven't gone the way of the desktop PC and people get to make a machine with their own specs?
Anyone know who is selling laptop shells to make whitebooks?
John wrote
Its a lot harder with everything integrated on the motherboard.
Size constraints. You generally can't fit slots and plugs in there. The laptops are designed to exactly fit the components chosen with little room for error. Some laptops allow you to swap out video cards, but only a few.
Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock
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You ask a very good question. There's supposed to be a relatively large whitebook laptop market, say 10% of the market.
There was a shop in Brisbane that made them & advertised regularly. I've never seen any wholesaler offer shells but they must be available.
gtoomey
Hi Gregory
Asus are supposed to be doing them according to a Cnet article I read a while back.... And FIS.
Bullshit. Everything can be scaled down to size and standardised if the demand was there.
Never thought bout that. Is it true some companies already started doin that on small scale as above?! Would b great if I can assemble a Notebook for the half of the price of a new brandname one.
Yeah, apparantly it is happening and I think it's a great idea.
Well as I mentioned try ASUS or FIS sorry don't have the URL's here but they're bloody easy to find
Don't know if the savings would be that high. I see TodayTech distribute some barebones notebooks. Look under Clevo and Macron
Clockmeister wrote
The size is irrelevant, the problem is that everything is integrated on the motherboard with a laptop, so you clearly get no flexibility with what is integrated into that motherboard, its either included or its not.
No wonder you only ever get to crash cars.
That is the whole point, changing that so people can customise. It's already happening.
Clockmeister wrote
Cant be done with everything integrated on the motherboard, stupid.
Nope, what is happening is actually quite different. Nothing like desktop PCs.
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Rod Speed committed to the eternal aether...:
And you only get to chainsaw yourself. I'd rather crash a car.
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