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Make Yourself a Laptop or Notebook: BareBones, White Box and DIY Machines
Do you want to build a custom made laptop or notebook?
Here is a collection of free do-it-yourself explanations.
If you have written about your barebone experience (or if you
know of a guide not linked here), please
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DIY Custom Laptops and Notebooks
Commodore Amiga Prelude 1200 | How to make a unique laptop from an Amiga PC, a 2.5" hard disk and a TFT display (in German). |
Commodore Amiga Portable | How to fit different Amiga PCs into cases made from wood or aluminium (in German). |
Commodore Amiga 600 | How put the desktop PC into a suitcase (in German). |
Genesi Pegasos | Portable Pegasos: converting a PowerPC desktop into a laptop (in German). |
Atari 800 XE Laptop | The making of a homebrew laptop in a plastic box. A complete DIY guide with pictures. |
Briefcase Laptop | The orignal version of the briefcase laptop was simply a desktop PC dismembered and crammed into a briefcase. All essential components are included (minus a monitor). The final version of the briefcase laptop was a complete, free-standing, mobile computing system that could be set up anywhere that an electrical outlet was handy. |
HardWood Deja 2.0 | How to build a custom notebook case from wood. |
HardWood Deja 1.0 | Making a custom laptop in a wooden case. |
Laptop from Scratch | Ever felt like building your own laptop from (almost literally) scratch? This is a microcontroller-based "laptop" built from the ground up from a handful of chips and other hardware found lying around. |
Mac Mini Portable - MMP | The Worlds Smallest Mac G4 Battery Portable! |
Mini-ITX Laptop | This guide explains how to build a custom laptop with a Mini-ITX motherboard inside. Imagine to upgrade every component as they grew too old. For very little money, here is a 2GHz processor laptop with 1GB RAM, and an ATI Radeon 9200 128MB graphics card. |
PS3 Laptop | How to make a laptop of your very own. |
RedWood 3.0 | A homebrewed laptop n a wooden box. |
RiscOS Box![archived link, opens in new window [archived link]](http://tuxmobil.org/pics/archived.png) | How to build a RiscOS laptop from scratch, using a steel box. |
Toshiba Libretto 110 | The ZX Spectrum laptop is a combination of two vintage computers: a ZX Spectrum 48k and a Toshiba Libretto 110. |
WANDER | A Portable Linux Data Collection System. |
Wii Laptop | This HOWTO describes how to convert a Wii into a laptop, starting with the disassembly of the unit, initial computer drawings, and "reworking" of the heat sink. |
Xbox 360 Laptop | How to turn a Xbox 360 into a laptop case. |
Selfmade Tablet PCs and Webpads
BareBone Laptops and Notebooks
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