custom What might I need

Djjawsyetti.iso · August 21, 2016

I'm looking into building something never done before. Not a laptop into desktop. A full fledged desktop portable in flight 2 hours on a charge gaming. Any suggestions on how and what materials and parts I will need.

minibois · August 21, 2016

So you want to make a desktop in a laptop shell (or similar)?

Hmm, sounds interesting.. Well first of all you need material that will be the outside shell, material that doesn't really pick up warmth (as otherwise you will just have a really hot shell sitting on your lap and the warmth will just keep the components warm too). You will also need to think of ways how you want the components to be mounted. If you're gonna go ITX motherboard, low profile RAM and CPU cooler and with a PCIE bridge connect the GPU and place it somewhere else.. That could work.

It will just not be a super lightweight or thin laptop. This is why laptop makes often use way different stuff for connecting hardware (like placing the RAM in some other slots, rather than in the motherboard directly)

But I just have to ask: why?

TheCi · August 21, 2016

33 minutes ago, Djjawsyetti.iso said:

A full fledged desktop portable in flight 2 hours on a charge gaming.

Well, I'd say this is pick 2 out of 3: performance of a desktop, 2h charge, portable (in flight).

You can built relatively portable desktops nowadays, some cases are even specialized for it or you can do it yourself. A UPS that lasts 2h is gonna be big, like, not portable big. And then there's fitting all that into something that works in flight?

Not claiming it's impossible to built something that meets all 3, it exists: high end gaming laptops.

Djjawsyetti.iso · August 21, 2016

6 hours ago, Minibois said:

So you want to make a desktop in a laptop shell (or similar)?

Hmm, sounds interesting.. Well first of all you need material that will be the outside shell, material that doesn't really pick up warmth (as otherwise you will just have a really hot shell sitting on your lap and the warmth will just keep the components warm too). You will also need to think of ways how you want the components to be mounted. If you're gonna go ITX motherboard, low profile RAM and CPU cooler and with a PCIE bridge connect the GPU and place it somewhere else.. That could work.

It will just not be a super lightweight or thin laptop. This is why laptop makes often use way different stuff for connecting hardware (like placing the RAM in some other slots, rather than in the motherboard directly)

But I just have to ask: why?

The reason why is because why the hell not.