Are Laptop Motherboards different from Desktop Motherboards?

yeah... they're smaller

 

Build a laptop are you serious ?

You can probably buy one cheaper than you can build it.

 

It is going to be damn near impossible to build a laptop. Fork over the money and buy one.

 

lol.

 

Because all of that crap is built specifically for those boxes. It will not work. Period.

 

Most laptop components are custom built for the case so this wouldn't work. Plus the AMD Athlon you are thinking of buying is probably for a desktop and wouldnt fit on a laptop board and if it did it would eat up more better then a laptop CPU would

 

Processors are usually soldered onto the board so dont hold your breath.

 

Don't even try . . . it's theoretically possible (anything is), but your chances of succeeding are about 1 in 1000. The thing is that almost all laptop motherboards are proprietary, and the connectors are nonstandard.

If you were really adventurous, you could buy all the laptop parts and then build your own case.

The thing is though, laptop processors are not the same as regular processors. You'd go with a "mobile" athlon, rather than a regular one, unless you want 0 battery power.

 

Okay, let's here from the future Dell design engineer.

Laptop boards are often 10-12 layer printed circuit boards. Desktop motherboards are usually 6-layer PCBs. Some companies such as Sony (Vaio) have 2 sided boards, with the memory on the bottom side.

Laptop boards are manufactured by a company called Quanta in Taiwan. They are legacy-free, and their drives are not compatible with your standard desktop peripherals, unless you go external.

This is a very adventurous project. Good luck, young Jedi.

 

Jeez, I've tried to stay out but I'm seeing you need help.

Don't do it. It's a waste of time. For one thing, that mobo that supports a 166 MHz processor probably won't support anything much faster. You'll be spending about $200-$500 on junk.

 

Buy a Mac instead

On eBay, 3 year old Powerbooks are running ~$400. A better buy, and it will run "contemporary" software much longer than its PC equivalent.

 

If you're really in need, finance it. You'd end up paying a lot mroe than you should, but you might be able to get a computer of your choice, and assuming you have some kind of income now (from student or part-time job), your chosen profession later - lawyer - should make up for the expense. Just a thought though.