cRazi_man@cRazi_man@europe.pub
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Replying to a post on ⁨discuss.tchncs.de⁩

Excellent hack.

In case you’re a masochist like me and want a lot more work on your hands, then you could remove the whole laptop mobo and make its own case and make it more compact in the process.

I’ve done this recently to make a standalone machine out of a busted laptop. This can give you a single, more compact unit with all the parts inside. You can improve the cooling and noise too (by using desktop fans). You’ll maintain your laptop resale value too by not destroying the case and being able to put the mobo back in place in the future. Infact, with today’s ram prices, the reason I went down this route is because you can get broken laptops with soldered in DDR5 ram.

europe.pubI finally finished my project: an emulation console for the kids - Europe PubThe Mrs is happy I won’t be spending so long in the garage now. It’s ended up being bigger than I thought and is a huge eyesore, but it works fine. My kids are playing a lot of video games these days. They play a few indie games and Nintendo Switch games. I wanted to give them their own device, but wanted to stay on a low budget in this PC hardware pricing environment. So I thought I would make a poor man’s Steam machine/Gabe cube. I took inspiration from this YouTube video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3fnsGHe8eE] about making a broken laptop into a media PC. So I bought a broken laptop (smashed screen and dented case). Got it pretty cheap in an eBay auction (HP ENVY 17-da0503sa - Intel Core Ultra 5 125H - 16GB DDR5 RAM). Took the working parts out and made a case for it. Pic 1 [https://europe.pub/pictrs/image/faed465c-d495-469f-b7c5-28702d395226.jpeg] Pic 2 [https://europe.pub/pictrs/image/43ba12f9-914a-419b-bcb8-33620e4daba4.jpeg] Pic 3 [https://europe.pub/pictrs/image/f57e1813-
djdarren@djdarren@piefed.social

Replying to an earlier post

I’ve been pondering doing this to a broken iMac I’ve got.

It got donated to me by someone who needed to thin out his studio a bit, so it didn’t cost me a penny. But I took the screen off to give it a clean out and repaste, apparently didn’t tape it in place securely enough as a temporary measure, so the screen fell off. And smashed.

I did some swearing.

However, it’s still a surprisingly handy spec. 3.5ghz i5, 24gb RAM and a Radeon GPU. So I’ve been wondering about pulling the guts and turning it into a desktop, then making it my home server to replace the 2014 Mac mini I currently use.

ponderings intensify

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