Home made "mega" laptop

Let's have a thought experiment Sup Forums.

The Acer Predator 21x is a laptop with the following specs:

>21" 2560 x 1080 IPS LCD screen
>i7-7820HK 2.9 ghz CPU
>2x Nvidia GTX 1080 GPUs
>64gb of DDR4 RAM
>2x 512gb PCI SSD

It weighs 20 lbs and costs $9000. That's a lot of money. What kind of laptop acn you build on your own with that kind of money? Can you build something equivalent for less?

There are many low profile and low power consumption desktop components available, as well as frameless monitors to work with. Cases can be ordered from plastic and metalworking companies. Again, $9000 is a lot of money to work with.

So what would you start with?

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>20 lbs
>21" screen
Nigga this ain't a laptop anymore.

Also battery life will be super dogshit, maybe like 10 minutes of gaymen assuming a huge 100Wh battery was crammed inside.

God, "gamer aesthetic" is such crap

I think the best course to go with the display will to be buying a 21" IPS monitor and decasing it. This is done in the arcade an pinball hobby sometimes and they seem to have good success with it. An open frame monitor is another possibility, but it looks like it would be about twice the cost.

One you have the monitor out of the case you'd need to build your own with hinges and find a way to run your cables through.

you can stuff them all in a cardboard box
since that's all you can do without paying someone to design shit

There are lots of diy keyboard kits out there, so creating a mechanical keyboard to fit in the laptop should be no problem.

Personally, I think mechanical keyboards are overrated after being interested in them for several years. A rubber dome keyboard with n-key rollover would be just fine in this application, and would potentially save weight and space.

I take it you have never heard of electronics project boxes. It's just a matter of looking through and finding the right one.

If it were my own project I might would go with a 4:3 1600x1200 screen. There are more ready-made monitor parts in these specs and more project boxes that have the potential of fitting them easily.

What, did you fall for the cherry meme?

And there is always acrylic which can be cut to arbitrary sizes. I'd use a heavy tint. Clear acrylic is too dated looking.

However, acrylic is rather heavy so maybe it wouldn't be a first choice.

Nah, I used alps, but they're all the same really. I get higher speeds and accuracy on a random keytronic rubber membrane keyboard out of my whole collection.

>2x Nvidia GTX 1080 GPUs
Why the fuck would you need that, in a laptop of all things? You're just asking for something to cook to death.

>64gb of DDR4 RAM
This also seems like overkill.

I agree. A single GTX 1080 will be plenty for this project, and since our design will be modular the owner doesn't have to worry about future performance limitations. Just remove the 1080 and replace it with the future generation card.

The GPU will need to be a blower design owing to the compactness of the casing.

A better laptop for half the price

I'm not much of an ITX guy, so I need some suggestions on a good motherboard.

Now, if it were up to me I would not use an ITX or Mini ITX motherboard. I would use a micro-ATX motherboard with socket LGA 2011 v1. This will let you use the high price/performance ratio e5-2670 2.7ghz 8 core Xeon processor. This CPU will turbo to 3.3 ghz. It will not bottleneck any game or task you throw at it. The TDP is 115 watts, which is manageable.

But because this motherboard is square I will again suggest a 4:3 screen aspect ratio and overall square design to the "laptop". The motherboard can sit in the bottom of the case with the GPU and Keyboard in the next layer above.

It may even be possible to use an existing low profile case and hack the keyboard and monitor to it.

Maybe even a 2U case.

more like 4 u amirite

>gaming laptop

this meme must die

agreed. I always feel so odd if I buy any of it. Really it's for my machine that I do work on. Really I'm less embarrassed about porn on my machine than having gamer doom horn space vents on my ram.

Or you could have the gpu flat alongside the 'bottom' edge of the motherboard, like so

ez
Its not a notebook, its a protable Computer. Just put a mITX in a suitcase and done.

>$9000
>For an acer with BLUE LEDZ everywhere

jesus christ. I bet there's people buying them too. Disgusting

please don't post pictures of that sellout here.

What is the target market for this shit autistic 12 year olds?

Even Newegg makes fun of "gaming laptops"

look at their April fools joke from this year

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Yeah, if you're gonna make a 21" portable, you may as well do something like this. I'd only try a laptop ish build if it's 15.6" or lower

I'll make the logo.

middle-aged men with too much disposable income.

This actually looks pretty good.

>What kind of laptop acn you build on your own with that kind of money?
None because i don't own a computer manufacturing plant

that's more of a "portable computer" than it is a laptop

anyway these giant gaming laptop things are frivolous wastes of money because they get outdated within like 3 years (if they don't break by then) and you can *never* upgrade them

This. You can upgrade them with chinese OEM parts for too much money without warranty...

A "gaming" laptop or workstation may be something for someone who works with it or is an e-sporter, but most normal users don't need a notebook.

>I have been using gaming notebooks for years and only used them on my desk

A light portable notebook is much cheaper when you build a desktop PC for home usage with it