Upgrading an old laptop

I was wondering, since you cant actually upgrade the components on a laptop motherboard, is it feasable to swap out the entire motherboard but keep the old laptop case, keyboard, touchpad and screen?

Or are certain screens and input devices designed to only work with certain Mboards?


Thanks for any answers, I would love a decent laptop but I lack the funds L

 

No! You cannot fit another mothersboard in that case.

You can reuse the RAM and HDD if they are correct adapters!

 

Notebooks parts are not easily interchangeable unless they are of the same model/series.

 

First of all, which laptop are we talking about here?

 

I think this is possible with a little case modding

 

you will not be able to mod the motherboard...
each and everyone (laptop) has there own motherboard

unlike desktop mobos.... they are in no way upgradeable...
open it up and check your upgrade posibilities...
Ram?
HDD?
CPU?
Graphics card by MXM?
Wifi?
Bluetooth?
OPtical Drive??
what kind of lappy do you have?
it would be a great help to know!
Hope i helped,
David K

 

I wasnt talking about modding a motherboard.

I meant if I bought a very old laptop (thus it has lots of interior space) I know If I swapped every part (IE screen, battery, Mboard, etc.) out of it and put in those from a newer model (say from damaged ones) that it would work like a new laptop (though potentially some cooling issues).

However that would cost pretty much the same as just buying the laptop outright.

What I was wondering is are screens made to "plug" into the motherboards? (The only laptop Ive ever opened was, but that was nigh on 15 years old) and if so are the connections standard (so one laptops screen will work with another Mboard type) or proprietory, or are they wired into the board.

And if one laptops screen/keyboard ect can be physically connected, would the bios support it or is it very specified.

Same for batteries/ keyboards and such.


I assume from the general direction of most of the posts that all bits are proprietory and or wired in.

I suppose I could build a hillbilly laptop but id just rather not :?

Thanks anyway people

 

They will cost around the same. I very strongly suggest buying a used notebook mate. Give your friends a call see if anyone is selling to get better deals than on Ebay! It worked for my other friend!

 

Thanks for the input, that did occur to me but everyone I know is of the sensible type IE laptops should be powerful enough to get onto the net, maybe word proccess, and you should use a desktop for anything harder

However I want a laptop with enough computing power to destroy the sun!

 

a new machine with 1+ year warranty costs around $450-.

We're talking a 15"+ screen, 3-4 Gb ram, 160Gb+ hard drive, a dual core running at least 2 Gz.