Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Sunday 07 March 2004 15:55, Ricky Bruce wrote:
I am thinking about having a go at putting together a 'whitebook' as per instructions here http://www6.tomshardware.com/mobile/20031202/ and here http://www.techbuilder.org/article.htm?ArticleID=48122 The articles make it seem perhaps deceptively simple. Anyone done anything similar, any warnings, im not neccessarily doing it for cost savings, more for the experience.
As a company we played around with this last year, it was an easy way
for us
to obtain laptops free of the OEM licensing that is so common with big brands.
We tried a couple of built-to-spec machines. we bought them as built, but a local company i can't remember the name of actually put them together.
They seemed a fairly good deal, but the quality of the carcasses was low, and, as Wayne said, they dont use space particularly well.
The most memorable thing was finding out that if you typed on the keyboard while a cd was spinning the plastic just under the return key would contact the cd drive mechanics resulting in a horrible graunching noise.
for the experience, fine, but dont expect a good quality notebook at the end. personally, i'd advise a secondhand newish one for 500ish (would get you a 2.4ghz desktop replacement for example) if you want a notebook. you could always strip it down...