Building a new laptop

Good afternoon guys, I'm having an ambitious project, which is to build an Asus gaming laptop from individually sourced parts online.

Just a question, does anyone have a comprehensive parts list detailing the part numbers that can make up the whole laptop?

The desired model is Asus G53JW, and I've found a site containing all the parts, but they do not seem to offer a complete laptop. I'm buying the necessary parts to assemble the cosmetic parts.

Does anyone have the G53 Service Manual, or a detailed parts list for the laptop?

Any help would be seriously appreciated

 

If you dont mind me asking, why would you do that instead of buying a complete notebook?

Wouldn't buying the parts individually end up costing more?

You can find the complete notebook on ebay for around $1500.

 

Yeah, I wanted the challenge of building a laptop from the ground up. Been buying stuff that I do not know what's inside, it sucks.

So yeah, want the exploded diagrams to find the model parts and assemble one from scratch

 

I tried building a Dell XPS M1710 2.5 years ago and ended up losing $400+ dollars.

 

It would be cheaper to buy a G53JW, completely disassembled it, and put it back together in your new chassis. Otherwise you're going to pay a markup on every single one of the internal components, probably in the 15-20% range at a minimum.

 

Notebook parts cost way more on an individual basis than they do for a ready made system. A top-end GPU can run $400 or more.

 

Laptops don't really work that way. Unlike a desktop computer, there really isn't a good reason to build a laptop from the ground up.

(1) Price. You don't save money. Buying individual parts and trying to put them together will be expensive, and the market for those parts will be small. You may have a hard time finding parts, since the market for individual laptop parts isn't really there (unlike a desktop market).

(2) Parts customizability. The major component of a laptop are already going to be pre-selected for you, based on the chassis you pick. Screen, keyboard, monitor, GPU, CPU architecture... they are all pretty much locked in for you already. The only areas of a laptop where you get any customizability is the RAM, hard drive, and CPU clock speed (within the pre-set CPU architecture family).

(3) Overclocking / tweaking. Again, this is pre-set for you based on the motherboard that your laptop chassis supports. The motherboard BIOS will either support overclocking, or it won't. End of story.

(4) Upgradeability. You cannot upgrade / swap out parts on a laptop like you can with a desktop. Motherboard, CPU architecture, RAM type, sound, keyboard, monitor, power, cooling system, ports (USB 2.0 / 3.0), etc... all of that is going to be locked in for you already. Just about the only parts you can count on upgrading in a laptop are the RAM and HDD.

(5) Warranty. Build your own laptop, and you don't get a warranty. If anything breaks on a pre-built laptop, you have one phone number you can call to get service on anything that goes wrong with any part. If you build your own laptop, then you need to get support from each individual vendor that made each individual defective part. If you need to replace your motherboard, a ribbon cable, and an audio daughter card, you are potentially looking at 3 different RMAs to 3 different vendors and shipping to 3 different countries.

 

6) Screws & fasteners. Tiny, tiny screws and fasteners..........

 

Here's your parts list:

(1) G53JW - $1049.75

Done.

 

Seriously though, if the OP wants to learn about the internals of a laptop, whats what, how things go together, etc, etc it might be easier/cheaper to buy an old used clunker and tear into that one.

If he gets one that actually works, that can be the final test; tear it down and then see if a fully working machine (no leftover parts allowed!) can be reassembled from the pile 'o parts.

 

To be honest I would get a barebones unit.

That way you can customise the important bits and it's still your machine.