Using a laptop minus the screen.

[Olaw]

I’ve modded my Acer Predator Helios 300 17”

to be used as a slim Commodore 64 -style PC without the screen, only to output with hdmi to TV or my gaming monitor.

I have entirely removed the laptop hinges and display/wlan wirings. All thing considered the laptop works perfectly fine and is much more portable thanks to the excess weight loss.

Would there be any long-term disadvantages to this mod, considering the hardware and might it cause any conflict with the intel gpu and nvidia? 

 

[TheGlenlivet]

6 minutes ago, Olaw said:

I’ve modded my Acer Predator Helios 300 17”

to be used as a slim Commodore 64 -style PC without the screen, only to output with hdmi to TV or my gaming monitor.

I have entirely removed the laptop hinges and display/wlan wirings. All thing considered the laptop works perfectly fine and is much more portable thanks to the excess weight loss.

Would there be any long-term disadvantages to this mod, considering the hardware and might it cause any conflict with the intel gpu and nvidia? 

 

No.  I use a laptop plugged into a monitor pretty much every day for work.  The computer doesn't care what it is outputting to.

[EPPHO]

Only disadvantage I would say is that you can't use it everywhere, only where you have an access to a monitor, and also dust is going to flood your keyboard.

[lavablade02]

Why would you ever want to do this? Seems unnecessary. 

[Rex_G]

19 minutes ago, lavablade02 said:

Why would you ever want to do this? Seems unnecessary. 

Bad display, broken hinge or so many other things. I did that with one my older laptops as well. I had a new one and older worked fine except the screen. So I removed the screen, modded the case for a little more airflow and connected it to my TV. That became my media computer.

[Rex_G]

21 minutes ago, Olaw said:

I’ve modded my Acer Predator Helios 300 17”

to be used as a slim Commodore 64 -style PC without the screen, only to output with hdmi to TV or my gaming monitor.

I have entirely removed the laptop hinges and display/wlan wirings. All thing considered the laptop works perfectly fine and is much more portable thanks to the excess weight loss.

Would there be any long-term disadvantages to this mod, considering the hardware and might it cause any conflict with the intel gpu and nvidia? 

 

It will be perfectly fine. Just make sure you clean it regularly (blow out the dust with air cans and such).

[Olaw]

9 minutes ago, lavablade02 said:

Why would you ever want to do this? Seems unnecessary. 

I quess i was bit bored? The screen was quite a low point for the laptop to begin with but gaming experince with the keyboard was great so i got rid of the one thing which bothered me. The disassembly was easy thanks to the size of the laptop and is totally reversable.

[Olaw]

You barely even notice it’s missing.