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Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | Building new Laptop
DVA6374
Captain, B747-400

Joined on September 03 2008
50 State Club
Million Mile Club
Everett 500 Club
Millennium Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Online Six Century Club
Event Half Century Club

Lockport, IL USA

1,410 legs, 4,290.7 hours
688 legs, 1,510.8 hours online
1,351 legs, 4,165.5 hours ACARS
56 legs, 128.5 hours event
 Posted onPost created on April 07 2010 13:17 ET by Graham Ritz
Hello all,

Can you please give me ideas on how/what all to include in a home building labtop. I need it under $1200, but I want parts to make flight sim run PERFECTLY.
Please help!

Thanks

Graham Ritz

Captain, B747-400
DVA1933
Senior Captain, B727-200

Joined on September 19 2004
Triple Century Club

Monterrey, NL Mexico

357 legs, 860.4 hours
72 legs, 132.3 hours online
255 legs, 668.3 hours ACARS
1 legs, 1.9 hours event
 Posted onPost created on April 07 2010 13:19 ET by David Eugenio Gomez
I thought only desktops could be self-built, and not laptops?


DVA2318
Captain, B777-200
OLP
E-MAIL

Joined on May 01 2005
Online Century Club
Double Century Club

Detroit, MI

201 legs, 637.0 hours
177 legs, 600.7 hours online
191 legs, 622.5 hours ACARS
41 legs, 98.6 hours event
216 legs, 721.7 hours total
 Posted onPost created on April 07 2010 14:54 ET by Brandon Cruz
Why not build a desktop or something? You will save more money, and you can possibly make run FSX very smoothly vs. a puny notebook.

Anyway OCZ makes great products heres a couple of DIY laptops they have available.

http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/diy_notebooks/
DVA3196
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP, COMM

Joined on June 03 2006
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
Six Century Club

"pitchpowertrim.com"
Anderson, MO

619 legs, 1,093.4 hours
292 legs, 503.1 hours online
580 legs, 1,026.5 hours ACARS
89 legs, 191.0 hours event
236 legs dispatched, 110.1 hours
 Posted onPost created on April 07 2010 18:45 ET by Michael Brown
Surely you mean a desktop?.....you really can't go out and build your own laptop from scratch. There are vendors out there that you can pick and choose different options for laptops but the vendors build it.


DVA7373
Captain, B757-200
OLP

Joined on May 31 2009

"Howdy"
Southeastern United States

72 legs, 187.6 hours
32 legs, 85.4 hours online
67 legs, 153.2 hours ACARS
2 legs, 3.1 hours event
 Posted onPost created on April 07 2010 19:21 ET by Nicholas Taylor
Michael Brown wrote:

Surely you mean a desktop?.....you really can't go out and build your own laptop from scratch. There are vendors out there that you can pick and choose different options for laptops but the vendors build it.


Oh no, no, no. It's completely possible to build your on laptop. The laptop my dad uses was built completely by parts bought off of Newegg, except the case.

Nicholas Taylor

Captain, B757-200

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