DIY Laptop
Many of us have been building workstations and servers for years. Really, it was quite simple. All you need to do is get the components, snap everything together, and presto! you had a computer!
But, if you said that you wanted to build a laptop, that was a whole different story! All of the components were proprietary. Getting everything in to a small package was a huge task. Very few seemed up to the challenge.
Then came Torquil Harkness. Here was a man that was willing to accept this challenge and, in true hacker form, did not disappoint! In The “ITX-Laptop”, Torquil walks through the process he used to create his own laptop! Now, lets keep in mind that Torquil did this as an exercise to see if this could actually be done. He has no aspirations of putting HP or Toshiba out of business anytime in the near future.
What is amazing is that the completed laptop look pretty good! It has a bit of a Terminator feel to it which I think is really cool! This is a good article to read if you are looking to do something like this for yourself or just to see some of the techniques that Torquil used. I highly recommend it.
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November 30th, 1999 at 12:00 amBut, if you said that you wanted to build a laptop, that was a whole different story! All of the components were proprietary. Getting everything in to a small package was a huge task. Very few seemed up to Source: dailycupoftech.com [IMG Add Photos & Videos]
