Making your own laptop Whitebooks

[John]

Anyone here made a whitebook and howcome laptops haven't
gone the way of the desktop PC and people get to make a machine
with their own specs?

Anyone know who is selling laptop shells to make whitebooks?

 

[Rod Speed]

Anyone here made a whitebook and howcome
laptops haven't gone the way of the desktop PC and
people get to make a machine with their own specs?

Its a lot harder with everything integrated on the motherboard.

 

[Nicholas Sherlock]

Anyone here made a whitebook and howcome laptops haven't
gone the way of the desktop PC and people get to make a machine
with their own specs?

Size constraints. You generally can't fit slots and plugs in there. The
laptops are designed to exactly fit the components chosen with little
room for error. Some laptops allow you to swap out video cards, but only
a few.

Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock

 

[Gregory Toomey]

Anyone here made a whitebook and howcome laptops haven't
gone the way of the desktop PC and people get to make a machine
with their own specs?

Anyone know who is selling laptop shells to make whitebooks?

See http://www.crn.com.au/story.aspx?CIID=23726

You ask a very good question. There's supposed to be a relatively large
whitebook laptop market, say 10% of the market.

There was a shop in Brisbane that made them & advertised regularly. I've
never seen any wholesaler offer shells but they must be available.

gtoomey

 

[John]

See http://www.crn.com.au/story.aspx?CIID=23726

You ask a very good question. There's supposed to be a relatively large
whitebook laptop market, say 10% of the market.

There was a shop in Brisbane that made them & advertised regularly. I've
never seen any wholesaler offer shells but they must be available.

gtoomey

Hi Gregory

Asus are supposed to be doing them according to a Cnet article
I read a while back.... And FIS.

 

[Clockmeister]

Its a lot harder with everything integrated on the motherboard.

Bullshit. Everything can be scaled down to size and standardised if the
demand was there.

 

[Damian]

Bullshit. Everything can be scaled down to size and standardised if the
demand was there.

Never thought bout that. Is it true some companies already started doin that
on small scale as above?! Would b great if I can assemble a Notebook for the
half of the price of a new brandname one.

 

[Clockmeister]

Never thought bout that. Is it true some companies already started doin
that on small scale as above?! Would b great if I can assemble a Notebook
for the half of the price of a new brandname one.

Yeah, apparantly it is happening and I think it's a great idea.

 

[John]

Never thought bout that. Is it true some companies already started doin that
on small scale as above?! Would b great if I can assemble a Notebook for the
half of the price of a new brandname one.

Well as I mentioned try ASUS or FIS sorry don't have the URL's here
but they're bloody easy to find

 

[Fred]

Never thought bout that. Is it true some companies already started
doin that on small scale as above?! Would b great if I can assemble a
Notebook for the half of the price of a new brandname one.

Don't know if the savings would be that high.
I see TodayTech distribute some barebones notebooks.
Look under Clevo and Macron
http://www.todaytech.com.au/ProductType_List.asp?PTID=11
I think they are targetted at smaller retailers who want to offer their own
"Branded" notebook.
Something like Pioneer Computers perhaps and their online configurator.
(Remarkable resemblance to the Dell sites layout)
http://www.pioneercomputers.com.au/products/products.asp?c1=3&c2=12

 

[Rod Speed]

Bullshit. Everything can be scaled down to size and standardised if the demand
was there.

The size is irrelevant, the problem is that everything is integrated on
the motherboard with a laptop, so you clearly get no flexibility with
what is integrated into that motherboard, its either included or its not.

No wonder you only ever get to crash cars.

 

[Clockmeister]

The size is irrelevant, the problem is that everything is integrated on
the motherboard with a laptop, so you clearly get no flexibility with
what is integrated into that motherboard, its either included or its not.

That is the whole point, changing that so people can customise. It's already
happening.

 

[Rod Speed]

That is the whole point, changing that so people can customise.

Cant be done with everything integrated on the motherboard, stupid.

It's already happening.

Nope, what is happening is actually quite different. Nothing like desktop PCs.

 

[Mee]

Nope, what is happening is actually quite different. Nothing like desktop PCs.

Proof . come on now Philthys bum boi post some proof
incidently hitting a std reply without content will be accepted as
proof you have nfi .

 

[Damien McBain]

Rod Speed committed to the eternal aether...:

No wonder you only ever get to crash cars.

And you only get to chainsaw yourself. I'd rather crash a car.

 

[Clockmeister]

Cant be done with everything integrated on the motherboard, stupid.

Ofcourse not you fucking clown, learn to read and comprehend.

Nope, what is happening is actually quite different. Nothing like desktop
PCs.

You just watch clown...