This guy put out a YouTube video
detailing how he painstakingly crafted an entire gaming laptop
using only desktop hardware.
All the internals are heavily modified and held together by basically
hopes and dreams, but Socket Science says it actually works.
It’s got a 50 6 hundred x and an RX60 600.
And using a series of riser cables,
copper heat pipes, aluminum heat sinks,
and literally chopping off whatever motherboard
IO wouldn’t fit in the case,
he was able to build an entire
functional desktop in a super small and flat form factor
by 3D printing the body and lid of the laptop,
repurposing a thin USB keyboard,
a portable monitor, a trackpad,
and coming up with some creative cooling methods
like dismantling a Ryzen stock cooler
to turn into a super strong blower fan.
He was able to get 90% of the way there.
The other 10% was doing extremely finicky stuff
like custom designing hinges and power connectors
that I just don’t have enough time to get into right now.
So go watch the full video.
Socket science wound up not including a battery
since it not only take up extra space on the inside of the machine,
but also, who’s gaming on a laptop without it plugged in anyways?
It’s kind of still desktop though.