Build your own laptop

digitaldeath

As the title says - i'm looking t building my own laptop.

It will need to be top of the range when it comes to playing games (Half Life 2, Quake 4, Black & White 2, Call of Duty 2 etc.) and preferablly with a great deal of "sex appeal" (ie. Alienware look-alike)

Where should I start - links etc. if I'm looking at building my own?
Also - any spec recommendations?

Digi.

maidhc

Laptops, unlike desktops are largely proprietary. There are certain standard components, like the processor, hard drive, ram etc, but how these connect and interact is largely a matter for the manufacturer. Building your own isnt really an option.

There are plenty of good manufacturers there (more so than desktops); Sony, Dell, Siemens, Acer, Asus etc. Pay your money and take your choice.

digitaldeath

I'm sure I once read an article somewhere where somone did - but can't seem to find the link here.

Anyways - what would best fit my requirements above? But without the crazy Alienware prices!

Digi.

maidhc

http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20050504/ goes into some detail about building your own, but really all you do is bolt on a few pieces to an almost complete machine.

There is a guy in the FS computers selling a pretty class Inspiron XPS.

Nukem

It is possible but you are restricted in some case. looked into to it a while back seriousily and then just said bugger it (few and far between stock parts)

godtabh

There is a place just of the quays (the left just before the Millennium Bridge if you going into town) who build laptops from customers specs.

Can’t remember the name of it and don’t know if they are any good but if you live in Dublin it maybe a starting point.

Capt'n Midnight

You can add more memory and change the hard drive fairly easily on most notebooks.

A few allow you to change the processor - but only to one of the same family so you won't ever get more than say 30% improvement later on. The same is true of graphics cards. again most laptops don't want you to do this,

Many Games are limited more by the graphics card than by the processor. So that may be what decide which one to get. I'm a fan of the centrino for battery life , but you could always buy a second battery if you don't mind weight.

Do you want super light and portable, or a bigger screen - both add a lot to the price

popey21

Building a Laptop

"barebone notebook, also known as a Whitebox notebook."

http://www.laptoplogic.com/resources/detail.php?id=22&page=1