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Building a giant laptop
« on: August 30, 2014, 12:51:50 pm »
Building a giant rugged laptop. Specs: Celeron D cpu, 2GB ram, Dual boot WinXP Xubuntu on 200GB hdd
Most importantly: full keyboard.

I intend to use this thing outdoors.

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Re: Building a giant laptop
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2014, 12:59:18 pm »
How much does it weigh? O.O
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Re: Building a giant laptop
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2014, 02:02:39 pm »
About 13KG and still increasing...
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Re: Building a giant laptop
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2014, 02:17:11 pm »
Haha, that's pretty sweet! :D

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Re: Building a giant laptop
« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2014, 02:25:54 pm »
Whoaaaaa O_O
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Re: Building a giant laptop
« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2014, 02:36:18 pm »
Yep I was going for an old-school look. I think the keyboard looks great on it. The yellowed spacebar matches the color of the suitcase and the screen just fits perfectly. I know that LCD's weren't around yet, but I think I could not fit a crt in it.
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Re: Building a giant laptop
« Reply #6 on: August 30, 2014, 02:38:13 pm »
That sounds pretty awesome.

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Re: Building a giant laptop
« Reply #7 on: August 30, 2014, 02:45:38 pm »
I wish to add speakers and a floppy drive to this thing next. I am not sure where I want to put them yet though
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Re: Building a giant laptop
« Reply #8 on: August 30, 2014, 02:47:31 pm »
inb4 you need a car to get this thing around... haha
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Re: Building a giant laptop
« Reply #9 on: August 30, 2014, 02:48:48 pm »
I might put wheels on it and a tiny engine
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Re: Building a giant laptop
« Reply #10 on: August 30, 2014, 03:04:38 pm »
Would you try taking it on an airplane? :P

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Re: Building a giant laptop
« Reply #11 on: August 30, 2014, 03:08:25 pm »
I think I'd have to get a second ticket for this beast T_T
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Re: Building a giant laptop
« Reply #12 on: August 30, 2014, 03:10:58 pm »
Nice.
Does it have a battery? If so, how long does it last?
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Re: Building a giant laptop
« Reply #13 on: August 30, 2014, 03:12:40 pm »
Nope. It has a PC power supply in it. I might be able to make some kind of custom supply so it can work on batteries, but I don't think it'd be worth it. The battery would not last very long because the screen, motherboard and harddisk are not low-power laptop parts.
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Re: Building a giant laptop
« Reply #14 on: August 30, 2014, 03:15:21 pm »
That link on the image O.O

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