Mobile Desktop PC Project

[Joe295398]

Hello LTT Community. My name is Joe, me and my partner Kerri are working on an project, for the engineering class we take at Cape May County Technical High School. For the project we decided to make a case thats modular, and portable, while also being able to support full mod-ability. WE also want to incorporate the most amount of power possible, while still making it possible to take on business trips, or on vacation. The project will be finished around June of 2017. Thanks for the support guys. If you're interested in the project, as the project gets going, i may or may not set up a small pattern page, to pay for testing parts, otherwise it will be coming out of our pockets. Im not making a guarantee that it'll be sold one day, but, theirs always the possibility. -Joe and Kerri

[iamdarkyoshi]

Hehe, I'm (slowly) working on something similar

[Stardar1]

"How Many GPUs do you have?"

Yes

No

[tlink]

how many gpu's do i have? yes or no doesn't really seem good there lol. 

 

also i have an asus laptop, hasn't failed yet and its on 24/7 for 4 years now, not a single broken component. i suspect the ram is failing though.

[Froody129]

3 minutes ago, Stardar1 said:

"How Many GPUs do you have?"

Yes

No

This 

 

Isn't a mobile, all in one desktop PC just a laptop?

[Stardar1]

anyways, mobile computers for me have always been about the portability, working at school or work or home, but I'm not the kind of person to whip out a laptop on a bus. 

 

for my laptop use, I always have a mouse and charger with me. for something like what you are proposing, the main issue would be weight. a Mini-ITX form factor is easy to carry like a briefcase, but sticking a monitor on it will make it quite heavy. 

 

 

[Joe295398]

Sorry about that. I was talking when i did that. Any way to fix that with out making a new one?

[Stardar1]

4 minutes ago, Froody129 said:

 

Isn't a mobile, all in one desktop PC just a laptop?

I think the idea is to have desktop performance and stability. 

 

I have had many issues with older laptops being slow, hot and clunky, with tiny ass drives that love to fail and slow down everything. this would be upgradable, use desktop parts and have a proper cooling system

 

 

[Joe295398]

1 minute ago, Stardar1 said:

anyways, mobile computers for me have always been about the portability, working at school or work or home, but I'm not the kind of person to whip out a laptop on a bus. 

 

for my laptop use, I always have a mouse and charger with me. for something like what you are proposing, the main issue would be weight. a Mini-ITX form factor is easy to carry like a briefcase, but sticking a monitor on it will make it quite heavy. 

 

 

Well this will be more aimed at taking it on vacation, and setting it up, with what we have planned, it will require wall power. As for the monitor, we have something in the works.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Stardar1 said:

I think the idea is to have desktop performance and stability. 

 

I have had many issues with older laptops being slow, hot and clunky, with tiny ass drives that love to fail and slow down everything. this would be upgradable, use desktop parts and have a proper cooling system

 

 

Have you used something like a dell precision. There basically exactly that. Fast, cool, quiet, and much more portable than anything you could build.

[Stardar1]

Just now, Joe295398 said:

Well this will be more aimed at taking it on vacation, and setting it up, with what we have planned, it will require wall power. As for the monitor, we have something in the works.

so, in other words, a mini ITX PC... the only difference here is that you are trying to build a monitor into the case, which has been done, and is a little more awkward than it is worth. 

 

especially because higher-end hotel rooms have TVs that can be used as a monitor

[Stardar1]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Have you used something like a dell precision. There basically exactly that. Fast, cool, quiet, and much more portable than anything you could build.

My dad has a XPS 15, the only issue he has is drive space (he opted for bigger battery instead of 2.5" drive space, so he's stuck with the 512GB M.2)

[Joe295398]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Have you used something like a dell precision. There basically exactly that. Fast, cool, quiet, and much more portable than anything you could build.

well they're made for work. Were going after the gaming community, but as per the class, were extending it to some actual work. Its just a case as well. No actual computer parts come with it. ITs just a modular case.

 

4 minutes ago, Stardar1 said:

so, in other words, a mini ITX PC... the only difference here is that you are trying to build a monitor into the case, which has been done, and is a little more awkward than it is worth. 

 

especially because higher-end hotel rooms have TVs that can be used as a monitor

Not necessarily a mini ITX. were gonna try and make it as fast with the least amount of weight. Well see how it goes. 

[Stardar1]

1 minute ago, Joe295398 said:

well they're made for work. Were going after the gaming community, but as per the class, were extending it to some actual work. Its just a case as well. No actual computer parts come with it. ITs just a modular case.

 

Not necessarily a mini ITX. were gonna try and make it as fast with the least amount of weight. Well see how it goes. 

I mean, all mini ITX does is slightly increase the cost of lower end motherboards and limit you to one GPU, it has no direct impact on speed. 

[Joe295398]

6 minutes ago, Stardar1 said:

I mean, all mini ITX does is slightly increase the cost of lower end motherboards and limit you to one GPU, it has no direct impact on speed. 

We dont want to limit it to one GPU. If we can were gonna fit more then one GPU in there. What might end up happening is having a PCIE slot extender so the GPU can be at a different part. 

[Stardar1]

4 minutes ago, Joe295398 said:

We dont want to limit it to one GPU. If we can were gonna fit more then one GPU in there. What might end up happening is having a PCIE slot extender so the GPU can be at a different part. 

They are called PCIe x16 Riser cables btw

[Joe295398]

Yes, them then. And if it were to ever to be sold, personally, i would include one,  or however many GPU you're gonna get in them. I feel as if that would look bad if you had to buy that youerself, considering it would require it. No promises. As with anything i say with selling this thing. No promises.