Building your own?

I wish I knew how. It would be fun to build your own, wouldn't it?

Well, I didn't get to build my own laptop but I did end up paying for the parts for my little brother when he decided to build one. All I have to say is that it would have been a lot cheaper to just go out and buy one than building and customizing your own. But then again, this happened many years ago (6, I think) so parts and such might be cheaper nowadays. It was a good learning experience for him though. He ended up with more knowledge about the inner workings of computers so I think the money was well spent. If you want to try building your own laptop then I say go for it. But just make sure that your parts are compatible with each other else it might end up messing things up.

I have never known anyone who has built their own laptop. I imagine that this would be a formidable task because of the difficulty of housing and protecting components in such a confined space. There is also far less variety of components compared to a desktop computer, so I see no real benefit in even attempting it. It is commonplace for people to build their own desktops, which provides the option of installing all the components of your own choice.

I have looked up the various components to build up a laptop, but when I sat down and actually made a table of everything I needed - case, hard drive, ram etc the cost was significantly more then buying one. Unlike with desktops that components are easily available and there is a lot of various brands and parts to choose from, because of size constraints certain components only have one or two options at most thereby making it more complicated to find unless you go to a specific store that represents a brand to get them. There is also the issue that upgrades are limited. An option for beginners is to buy or use an older laptop and modify that, that way the basic structure is still there but it can be personalized, the issue there is the battery. Batteries are quite expensive and after a while, especially older machines, will have issues and it may have to be replaced. If you want to make a laptop to say that you did it, that you created your own, I hope you enjoy it. If it because you think that it may work out cheaper, it generally doesn't. Desktops are still the best way to practice building up a computer, the components are reasonably cheap to replace if something goes wrong and it teaches a lot about what can and will go wrong, both with hardware compatibility as well as with software.

That's interesting..No I don't build my own Laptop nor have idea on how to do it.I think that's cool.I would like to know how to build one.