Tritons mini-laptop thread

Post by **Triton** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 4:27 pm

Split from the homemade laptop thread!

well my mini laptop project is making progress, as soon as my lcd gets here i will possibly start my own thread for it. dimensions of the case i am using at present are a little over 8.5" wide 7.625" deep and a hair over 1.75" tall, the depth might change but the other two dimensions are pretty well set

paul4990 · Post by **paul4990** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 5:34 pm

get an msi m670-013uk it has 1.8ghz cpu geforce 6100 and 1/2gb ram for real cheap and trust me the intel graphics suck you NEED the geforce man!

Post by **Triton** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 1:46 pm

WOO! won me a motherboard! my case dimensions will probably remain the same as above but the specs on this thing will kick ASS! its an advantech PCM-9831 and will have probably a 1.8GHZ Pentium mobile processor and 512mb ram! 4gb microdrive dvd rom drive built in usb wifi with 5db gain antenna a 6.5" 1024x768 res LCD and in the future 10a lipoly batteries! total investment not counting the batteries will be under 300$

Felino · Post by **Felino** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 4:45 pm

Full stops included?

Here, hava few.

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You know, just incase.

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 5:05 pm

Dude, just wait for a picoITX board to come out, its the only way you'll get a decent laptop for $500

Macbook > ibook (My Core 2 Duo > your Power PC but your 1.5 GB of Ram > my 1 GB of Ram)

Post by **Triton** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 5:13 pm

my motherboard is 4"x5.75" . cost me 130 shipped and considering that the nano itx cost around 450 or 500$ right now and the pico will probably cost more than that i think ill pass lol.

Felino · Post by **Felino** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 5:33 pm

Use em, but in he right places, caps help too.

Post by **Triton** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 7:51 pm

dont really care! This is a forum its not an english assignment lol. At least I can write and get my idea across and can spell properly most of the time. trust me this is not the place to be a grammar and punctuation nazi lol, some of the noobs would run you ragged by themselves

tom61 · Post by **tom61** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:35 pm

Nice board and price Triton, pending it works better than the board I got off eBay in that formfactor.

If you're going to have a DVD drive, you might as well go with a laptop hard drive as well. I'd go with solid state if that's all the size you want, microdrives are very slow from what I've heard.

Where did you get the screen?

Are you going to start your own thread, or split this topic?

ZN13 · Post by **ZN13** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:41 pm

If I was him, i'd just use this thread, I mean it even has the title "Homemade Laptop".

Post by **Triton** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 9:17 pm

i may go with a laptop hdd, depends on how much room is left in my case, or i might go with like a 1gb CF card and install XP on it. the lcd i also got on ebay, the guy had a ton of them, havent got it yet but marshallh got his saturday and says its really nice. i paid 50 shipped for it! i think i will just keep posting in this topic.

Post by **Triton** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:47 am

i just got my today and WOW, its amazing. and i dont know if the guy added this as an apology for shipping late but i got a FREE 3M microtouch panel! cant beat luck like that i tell ya! the quality of this lcd is amazing too, very sharp and clear and brighther than the lcd on my laptop by a little bit. amazing deal, better than i had hoped or thought!

sorry for the crap image quality, the ccd in my camera is going bad, thats what the redish lines are. 6.5" lcd @1024x768 60hz playing transformers the movie (the original one lol)

gamemasterAS · Post by **gamemasterAS** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 12:14 pm

Wow this is almost giving me a geekgasm:lol:, this is gonna be so cool.

MrTroy · Post by **MrTroy** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:13 pm

SO what are you using for batteries? My PCp eats batteries like a champ so far. I got a big daddy(8800mah) but I blew out my powersupply and waiting on a new one.

Post by **Triton** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:18 pm

nothing untill i get a job and can put some in savings to afford some lol, batteryspace has some really nice thin 10 amp lipolys and i can get 2 of those and the protection circuit for under 150$ (very expensive lol)