There is no standard board size like they have for desktop systems, as well as non standardized drives like the floppy and cdron/dvd/cdrw drives.
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Geeky1University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
edited November 2003
See what mudd said for the answer to your question.
To expand on the topic, tho:
There is no reason why you can't build your own desknote/laptop. You'd have to use desktop components, and what you'd end up with is something that's either absurdly underpowered (via c3/itx) but reasonably small (a bit larger than the biggest desktop replacement notebooks), or you could use more powerful components (mATX P4/AMD board), and end up with something that's absolutely enormous (3" thick, 20x20" or more).
I've been working on designing my own desknote of sorts on and off for about a year, but it's basically impossible to do, unless you want something absurdly large.
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Proprietary components.
There is no standard board size like they have for desktop systems, as well as non standardized drives like the floppy and cdron/dvd/cdrw drives.
To expand on the topic, tho:
There is no reason why you can't build your own desknote/laptop. You'd have to use desktop components, and what you'd end up with is something that's either absurdly underpowered (via c3/itx) but reasonably small (a bit larger than the biggest desktop replacement notebooks), or you could use more powerful components (mATX P4/AMD board), and end up with something that's absolutely enormous (3" thick, 20x20" or more).
I've been working on designing my own desknote of sorts on and off for about a year, but it's basically impossible to do, unless you want something absurdly large.
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