I built a Laptop

my dad taught me how to build my first computer when i was 12 or something. bought second hand parts off ebay and taught me what to check to make sure everything worked together. i wasnt some whiz kid but i doubt playing with one of these when i was 8 would have made it any easier for me.

Austin: "This is for children" Also Austin: "Matt you already f***ed up"

This isn't "building a pc" this is plugging in a speaker and power adapter!

"As technology advances, things get smaller" looks at the rtx 3090 Hmmmm

"let's take a look at the specs of this kids laptop" Austin 2021

I feel like this is particularly good for right now with kids learning from home. Imagine putting together one's own laptop (as a 6 or 7 year old) and then being able to do work on it.

"Mom can I get the new Surface?" Mom: "We have a Surface at home." The Surface at home:

"There's no adult version of this, where you can build it up.. like SSD, ram" It's called a PC

20 years ago, you COULD build a laptop. For a time there were generic cases and boards. If you look at some of the old Gateway and Dell models of the time, you'd notice they were in the exact same case. They also started to use the same kind of small form factor drives, which led us to having basically standardized optical drives for laptops, until we basically have now abandoned them now entirely.

When recommendations are faster than notifications:

7:45 the battery is batterying -Austin Evans 2021

These are definitely some grade school level educational worthy devices.

I love this idea! I would love to build and spec out my own laptop. Would be expensive likely, but it could be sold as a bare bones rig, and you add memory, storage, processor, maybe screen? And you could either have the processor and heat sink be pre-built so that the most important heat components are smaller and integrated, where the normally removable is easily swapped out or in as you upgrade.

Austin: "This is like teaching you a basic level of coding" Coders: Austin, this is Python

Honestly, a mix between this and the thoughtbook would be nice, so we can have basically laptop parts (for energy efficiency) or even desktop parts, with anything we want from both worlds, with only some extension cables, to fit everything in neatly. Sure, we'd need some thin powersources, but it would most definitely be doable, and also possibly cheaper than trying to get everything ultra thin and ultra light. Basically, you would need to make a suitcase-like PC case designed to keep the components safe during transport, and make it fairly lightweight and sturdy. Definitely doable. Sure, you might need to make a few proprietary things, like using an air pump instead of a fan to cool the parts, taking air through one side and expelling it through another side, but it wouldn't be all that difficult, all things considered. Someone just needs to put in the time and to advertise it properly.

I remember buying a Kano product running a custom version of linux and was a raspberry pi model b. Around 5 months after, the OS failed to boot and got stuck in a boot loop so that weekend we went to a Rasbperry pi store and bought and sd card with a different version of linux. I then fell out of love for the product and didnt touch it for a year. Recently I have reinstalled that version of linux and gave it to my neice. She absolutely loves the product and uses it everyday.

Matt: "Cool, Charging Brick" Also Matt: "The speaker is mono..." Me: *Facepalm*

Since this is more simple than a laptop, and they label everything, I'd like to see you try to upgrade this if possible lol

*attach just a battery and a speaker* BUILD YOUR OWN LAPTOP KIT!

If you really want to build your own laptop, I believe the closest you can get available currently would be a Framework laptop where EVERYTHING is modular so you choose what features you want and can even change out your I/O ports any time you wish. They even allow users to upgrade their processor and mainboard by changing them out themselves.