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@EvanM found this on Amazon, but I am not sure if it would work in anything other than Lian Li: https://www.amazon.com/Lian-Li-O11D-1X-Premium-Extender/dp/B07F6TY23V/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=3+slot+vertical+gpu+bracket&qid=1583329897&sr=8-1 Worth a shot, me thinks.

Innovative for a small form factor projector. It seems like it will make it really conventional for not just a living room, but for anywhere you want to watch your movie or play a game. My only question is how do you adjust the angles?

Hey Guys at LMG, Thanks for everything you guys do! For the holidays I am looking to get the ASUS X551MA for my intelligent, but not so tech savvy, father. The reasoning behind getting my father the ASUS X551ma is that he is still rocking a Dell Latitude D830 that features an Intel Core 2 Duo processor slowly chugging along with 2GB of DDR2 RAM and Windows XP of from yester year. My solution a year ago was to fix his situation with an over powered gaming laptop which killed his dream of innovating and progressing his mobile business. My father, almost past his tech heyday, is still dedicated to working not just for a living, but for passion. My father has been working with his hands for over 45 years of his life. He’s a painter by trade, just as his father was before him. At a young age my father had to deal with working with what he had available to him which was not much. As a youth his family lived in a trailer in a small town in the Midwest of the US, and did not have much to come by. Up to this day this man is still tighter than a drum skin when it comes to the red and black pens he uses to manage his personal and business budgets. His current laptop, which was purchased as a gift, was given to him at Christmas in 2007. Unlike my mother, whole other ball game, he rarely complains about issues using his laptop. He not only uses it for his painting jobs (on-site estimates/work orders/accounting), but for personal web surfing/movie streaming. So when he mentioned he was having issues with it last year I felt incredibly irresponsible as a tech savvy son to not look out for my father’s tech situation. I then did the only thing a techie with a gaming habit was to do, I lent him my ASUS G73SW that I had no longer used due to a gfx card issue. It was still functional and only had issues when trying to play games. It was like giving new Corvette keys to someone who owned a 97 Pontiac Sunfire. I know this feeling because I owned an aforementioned 97 Pontiac Sunfire (Had 165k miles ran like a top, Luke is correct about Pontiacs ), and killed it by running into something stopped. I have also worked at a Chevrolet dealership, and the Corvettes are a little intimidating the first time you drive one. I did not want to lose my data on the G73 so I set him up a separate profile. I got a DC to AC power converter for his truck that was rated for the laptop to run since the battery was also failing. I paired everything with a wifi/bluetooth printer and instructed him how to connect and use everything. Now looking back at the time, he had the deer in headlights look. I think the combination of the laptop size and lack of “less-techie ergonomics” may have intimidated him and/or was not what he had expected. I recently went home to visit for the Thanksgiving holiday and borrowed my father’s truck. I found that the laptop was packed away with the printer under some clean drop cloths. I asked him how it was working out and he said he was having trouble with getting things to work and went back to the old carbonless paper method early in the year. Apologies for the language, but my stomach sank and I felt like utter shit. I felt like I failed my father and his vision/dream for modernizing his business practices. At that point I knew I was going to try and set him up with something that works with him and his business, rather than against. This is where the LMG challenge intrigued me and thought I’d throw my hat into the ring and see what happens. I cannot afford a newer gen Intel i-series laptop so I was hoping to find something functional for what he needs. After shopping around, and missing out on Black Friday deals, I found the ASUS X551MA, linked below. I plan to pair it with the TechNet 2.4G Nano wireless mouse, also linked below, to ease his working experience since it is only $10. My apologies for the lengthy post, and I hope this is what you are looking for. Thank you for your time and consideration. Gift Link(s): http://www.amazon.com/X551MA-Laptop-Intel-Celeron-500GB/dp/B00SV72ZA2/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top?ie=UTF8 http://www.amazon.com/TeckNet-2-4G-Wireless-Mouse-Buttons/dp/B001DHECXA/ref=pd_sim_147_2?ie=UTF8&dpID=41z9BmLy84L&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&refRID=0FY3V7EGRM30VG6J7VN0 If I do not win, I completely understand and would welcome any recommendations for my holiday purchases for my father.