Wondering if this type of Laptop still exist in 2019?

[Uncensored2008]

Microsoft sent me an email that they will not support Windows 7 anymore. Windows 7 is the best OS ever made. The keyboard went kaput on my Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 but I can still make it work, sometimes. My new laptop is HP with Windows 10 and I don't like Windows 10. Google keeps trying to get me to use Google Chrome but I refuse to comply with their request. I will never buy an Apple because I am not part of the LGBT community.

Windows 7 will continue to work past the service window. You simply won't get new security patches and updates. If you like Windows 7, you are free to keep using it.

 

[Moonglow]

You use the ratings on the components to work with each other-duh...

No stupid, that is specifying a configuration.

BUILDING a PC means getting an empty case, mounting a power supply, setting up case cooling, mounting the motherboard, attaching any storage devices (M.2 NVME makes this so easy now!) putting the CPU in the socket (you'd bend the pins, seriously) attaching CPU cooling, Putting in the RAM, setting up video options. Attaching case connections to the Mobo.

It doesn't matter when you are building one if the parts are new or used as long as they are within tolerances of compatibility, hey, I did do rocket science for the military for a missile system used the world wide over, it is called the TOW missile system... computers are easy to build compared to a optical guided wired missile system using a prism assembly for guidance..
All microprocessors have pins allocated for functions all you have to do is make sure the function is in the programming..

 

[Uncensored2008]

Then download the browser and build yer own damn laptop...

BUILD a laptop???

Dude, you're not drunk, you're tripping on heavy acid...

Why not? I build my son's gaming PCs every year.

Some folks just never do travel to certain places on the planet....I rebuild old ones and get them for free after people who can't work on them throw them away...

Even then, you are repairing old equipment, not "building a laptop."

Show me any hobby site that sells laptop cases?

I did see a compute stick attached to a battery that formed sort of a laptop, you could do it with a Raspberry Pi as well. But that isn't exactly a Surface Pro or MacBook.

Why would you need to buy one when you can get one by cannibalism?

I have a 2 pound I7 with 4K display, 16gb DDR4, a 512 NVME SSD, detachable tablet section, touch screen with a precision stylus...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076J15LKM/?tag=ff0d01-20

Why would I want someone else's discards?

 

[postman]

A laptop is not a regular PC.

Go looking for notebook cases, notebook power supplies, notebook motherboards.

Because of their size, a notebook or laptop is crafted by manufactures and not suitable for DIY projects. While POSSIBLE, it is not really something anyone does.

You use the ratings on the components to work with each other-duh...

Dude, it's not the ratings or the specs, it's the size and the connectivity. You can't even build your own laptop battery, no less a system that has to fit into a laptop case, and be compatable with the keyboard, the lcd screen, the power supply, the battery, the motherboard, the peripherals.

When my friend broke his screen, I told him the best thing to do is to find the same exact model on eBay with a bad main board, or bad CPU and swap the whole screen, hinges and all.

 

[Moonglow]

A laptop is not a regular PC.

Go looking for notebook cases, notebook power supplies, notebook motherboards.

Because of their size, a notebook or laptop is crafted by manufactures and not suitable for DIY projects. While POSSIBLE, it is not really something anyone does.

You use the ratings on the components to work with each other-duh...

Dude, it's not the ratings or the specs, it's the size and the connectivity. You can't even build your own laptop battery, no less a system that has to fit into a laptop case, and be compatable with the keyboard, the lcd screen, the power supply, the battery, the motherboard, the peripherals.

When my friend broke his screen, I told him the best thing to do is to find the same exact model on eBay with a bad main board, or bad CPU and swap the whole screen, hinges and all.

Much is not the same size for replacements parts yet it never stopped me from operating one computer that I replaced the power supply in that had to be housed outside of the housing flange..

 

[Moonglow]

BUILD a laptop???

Dude, you're not drunk, you're tripping on heavy acid...

Why not? I build my son's gaming PCs every year.

Some folks just never do travel to certain places on the planet....I rebuild old ones and get them for free after people who can't work on them throw them away...

Even then, you are repairing old equipment, not "building a laptop."

Show me any hobby site that sells laptop cases?

I did see a compute stick attached to a battery that formed sort of a laptop, you could do it with a Raspberry Pi as well. But that isn't exactly a Surface Pro or MacBook.

Why would you need to buy one when you can get one by cannibalism?

I have a 2 pound I7 with 4K display, 16gb DDR4, a 512 NVME SSD, detachable tablet section, touch screen with a precision stylus...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076J15LKM/?tag=ff0d01-20

Why would I want someone else's discards?

I don't know why would you?

 

[postman]

It doesn't matter when you are building one if the parts are new or used as long as they are within tolerances of compatibility, hey, I did do rocket science for the military for a missile system used the world wide over, it is called the TOW missile system... computers are easy to build compared to a optical guided wired missile system using a prism assembly for guidance..
All microprocessors have pins allocated for functions all you have to do is make sure the function is in the programming..

The microprocessors in laptops are soldered in with ball grid array. Which means you had to unsolder them with hot air, and you need special fluxes and masks to solder a new one on there, again using hot air. They have $10,000 machines to do it.

 

[postman]

Much is not the same size for replacements parts yet it never stopped me from operating one computer that I replaced the power supply in that had to be housed outside of the housing flange..

A friend of mine had a "Frankenstein" computer. He had all kinds of stuff hanging off of it. An external keyboard etc. It was no longer much of a laptop. Another friend connected up to a docking station and went external for everything, the screen, the keyboard, etc. Again, it was no longer a laptop, but a desktop he paid double for.

 

[Moonglow]

It doesn't matter when you are building one if the parts are new or used as long as they are within tolerances of compatibility, hey, I did do rocket science for the military for a missile system used the world wide over, it is called the TOW missile system... computers are easy to build compared to a optical guided wired missile system using a prism assembly for guidance..
All microprocessors have pins allocated for functions all you have to do is make sure the function is in the programming..

The microprocessors in laptops are soldered in with ball grid array. Which means you had to unsolder them with hot air, and you need special fluxes and masks to solder a new one on there, again using hot air. They have $10,000 machines to do it.

Yeah no kidding, yet when one is a certified electronic tech like I was it is no big deal to trade out surface mount components..

 

[Moonglow]

Much is not the same size for replacements parts yet it never stopped me from operating one computer that I replaced the power supply in that had to be housed outside of the housing flange..

A friend of mine had a "Frankenstein" computer. He had all kinds of stuff hanging off of it. An external keyboard etc. It was no longer much of a laptop. Another friend connected up to a docking station and went external for everything, the screen, the keyboard, etc. Again, it was no longer a laptop, but a desktop he paid double for.

My eldest who worked on ICBMs for the Air Force configures his computers to operate as gaming computers before he could afford to buy his own from Cyberpowerpc...I have two desktop gamers computers from them..Instead of new ones I rebuild the old guts in it...

 

[postman]

The microprocessors in laptops are soldered in with ball grid array. Which means you had to unsolder them with hot air, and you need special fluxes and masks to solder a new one on there, again using hot air. They have $10,000 machines to do it.

Yeah no kidding, yet when one is a certified electronic tech like I was it is no big deal to trade out surface mount components..

We're not talking normal surface mount, we're talking ball grid array. You need an X-ray just to do QC on it. And most folks don't have access to $50,.000 worth of equipment to fix their $800 laptop.

 

[postman]

My eldest who worked on ICBMs for the Air Force configures his computers to operate as gaming computers before he could afford to buy his own from Cyberpowerpc...I have two desktop gamers computers from them..Instead of new ones I rebuild the old guts in it...

Desktops were built to be modified. You get a case from here, a motherboard from there, a power supply from a third place. They all come in standard compatable configurations. I can remember swapping a 286 motherboard for an 8088 motherboard, and all I had to do was change mounting holes.

Building your own laptop is one step from building your own cellphone. I'm sure you'll say it's a snap for a certified electronic tech.

 

[xband]

Microsoft sent me an email that they will not support Windows 7 anymore. Windows 7 is the best OS ever made. The keyboard went kaput on my Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 but I can still make it work, sometimes. My new laptop is HP with Windows 10 and I don't like Windows 10. Google keeps trying to get me to use Google Chrome but I refuse to comply with their request. I will never buy an Apple because I am not part of the LGBT community.

Windows 7 will continue to work past the service window. You simply won't get new security patches and updates. If you like Windows 7, you are free to keep using it.

Everything works on my Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 except for the keyboard. I know I can buy a new keyboard that plugs into one of the ports but my entertainment center is too small and the plug in keyboard will be laying on the floor, old age gave me weak knees.

 

[postman]

Microsoft sent me an email that they will not support Windows 7 anymore. Windows 7 is the best OS ever made. The keyboard went kaput on my Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 but I can still make it work, sometimes. My new laptop is HP with Windows 10 and I don't like Windows 10. Google keeps trying to get me to use Google Chrome but I refuse to comply with their request. I will never buy an Apple because I am not part of the LGBT community.

Windows 7 will continue to work past the service window. You simply won't get new security patches and updates. If you like Windows 7, you are free to keep using it.

Everything works on my Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 except for the keyboard. I know I can buy a new keyboard that plugs into one of the ports but my entertainment center is too small and the plug in keyboard will be laying on the floor, old age gave me weak knees.

Get a wireless keyboard.

 

[Uncensored2008]

It doesn't matter when you are building one if the parts are new or used as long as they are within tolerances of compatibility, hey, I did do rocket science for the military for a missile system used the world wide over, it is called the TOW missile system... computers are easy to build compared to a optical guided wired missile system using a prism assembly for guidance..
All microprocessors have pins allocated for functions all you have to do is make sure the function is in the programming..

The microprocessors in laptops are soldered in with ball grid array. Which means you had to unsolder them with hot air, and you need special fluxes and masks to solder a new one on there, again using hot air. They have $10,000 machines to do it.

Yeah no kidding, yet when one is a certified electronic tech like I was it is no big deal to trade out surface mount components..

There is little to no standardization. So you are forced to the same or similar model from the same manufacturer or it won't fit.

Really, you're talking shit and everyone here knows it.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Microsoft sent me an email that they will not support Windows 7 anymore. Windows 7 is the best OS ever made. The keyboard went kaput on my Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 but I can still make it work, sometimes. My new laptop is HP with Windows 10 and I don't like Windows 10. Google keeps trying to get me to use Google Chrome but I refuse to comply with their request. I will never buy an Apple because I am not part of the LGBT community.

Windows 7 will continue to work past the service window. You simply won't get new security patches and updates. If you like Windows 7, you are free to keep using it.

Everything works on my Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 except for the keyboard. I know I can buy a new keyboard that plugs into one of the ports but my entertainment center is too small and the plug in keyboard will be laying on the floor, old age gave me weak knees.

Did the keyboard go bad? You should be able to get an OEM replacement, Keyboards are usually fairly easy to swap on a laptop.

 

[Flopper]

Laptop that

1. Has compatibility with Chrome Browser

2. Has a DVD/CD drive


I noticed that Chromebooks don't have DVD drives on their computers. I also prefer to use the Chrome Browser over Microsoft Edge

After years of insisting that my computer have a floppy drive and then graduating to a DVD, today I find no use for this type of auxiliary storage. With the huge capacity of USB storage and online storage, what use is a DVD?

 

[xband]

The microprocessors in laptops are soldered in with ball grid array. Which means you had to unsolder them with hot air, and you need special fluxes and masks to solder a new one on there, again using hot air. They have $10,000 machines to do it.

Yeah no kidding, yet when one is a certified electronic tech like I was it is no big deal to trade out surface mount components..

We're not talking normal surface mount, we're talking ball grid array. You need an X-ray just to do QC on it. And most folks don't have access to $50,.000 worth of equipment to fix their $800 laptop.

I remember the 8080 Microprocessor, well. Microprocessors were vintage early eighties and then came Microcomputers. Now RAM is internal in the chip with the general purpose digital computer, ROM is still external of the chip. The main frame in my avatar had a 2 microsecond clock count and water cooled core memory and used COBOL, circa early seventies. COBOL was hexadecimal and Basic was binary coded octal. edit: Thanks for the flashback.

 

[miketx]

I bought one of these from Amazon 2 years ago. Works great. 140 dollars then, less now.

 

[miketx]

Laptop that

1. Has compatibility with Chrome Browser

2. Has a DVD/CD drive


I noticed that Chromebooks don't have DVD drives on their computers. I also prefer to use the Chrome Browser over Microsoft Edge

After years of insisting that my computer have a floppy drive and then graduating to a DVD, today I find no use for this type of auxiliary storage. With the huge capacity of USB storage and online storage, what use is a DVD?

Playing movies you may have.