Turn laptop into mobile desktop.

[Outlaw]

Hope you like the subject. lol

I have a DV6000 which has a working but junk motherboard in it and is also know for heat/motherboard issues.

Would it be feasible to use the hardware from it to put into a box of some sort like a desktop but have it like the All-In-One computers where the Monitor/PC/drives are all in one housing. I assume I would probably have to use a keyboard and mouse or try to chop the laptop housing up to salvage the keyboard and mouse on it. Right now the laptop works if you reboot it a dozen or more times and dont close the monitor. Also the wireless nic, media buttons dont work. USB works when it wants to. I think I can get a new board for 130 then hopefully not need much material after that. Or I will just leave as a laptop... thought it would be kinda neat though.

[Zephik]

Isn't that kind of redundant? A laptop IS a mobile desktop. Turning a laptop into a laptop is like dividing my zero man! What are you trying to do? Destroy the universe??

;)

You could definitely place a laptop's innards inside of a desktop case though, if you really wanted to. I don't really see the point, since thats basically what a laptop is albeit much more portable, but who said life had to make sense?

I think you would either have to do some serious modding with a pre-existing case or you would have to build one by scratch to accommodate the odd motherboard layout, as some of the laptop components you cant change around. Well, maybe you could with flexible ribbon adapters?

But I don't really see any sort of benefit from doing such a thing other than from personal preference thing. So if you want to put a laptop inside of a desktop and mod it into an all-in-one pc, then by all means go right ahead.

[Luke122]

I'm considering doing something similar with my Toshiba Satellite P30.. it gets hot as hell, but the sound is amazing, and the 17" screen rock. Hmm..

[Funk]

Well I can see someone already pointed out the irony.

Challenger yourself to go find a laptop from like 1990 and then build your desktop in your laptop. =D

[Zephik]

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