You may have a unsuitable laptop around and getting dusty in a secluded corner of your room, and pondering it each time may have made you wonder if it's still good for anything else. Now's the time to shed that thought. Accept it or not, your laptop's separate parts may be employed to integrate into your desktop! Now your practical mind could be sending off warning signals as you read this, but don't forget that practicalness has nada to do with it. If you like hardware and take a Zen approach to it, this might be something that might be of benefit to you as a PC hardware enthusiast. If you bought laptops for college and now have no use for them, consider these actions!
Hard Drive
Laptops and desktops use the same interface, so there will not be any problems in integrating your laptop computer drive into your desktop elements. If your drive is using SERIAL ATA, you just have to push it into your motherboard's SATA data and power cables. If it's IDE, using an adaptor should allow you to use your IDE laptop computer hard drive with the Computer IDE cable.
LCD
This one will need some thinking over since the desktop uses analogue display technology (VGA), while the laptop PC LCD's are 100% digital. There isn't any way you may have communication between LCD and VGA since they are two different animals. By contrast, LCD's can only accept the correct digital input. There's one way to make it work, but you'll need to live with the incontrovertible fact that you have got to purchase another adaptor, which is a bit expensive. When you have made the choice to bump through, you've got to identify your laptop LCD's model and manufacturer, then find the mandatory adaptor for it. Like I said, it's a bit costly, so you may want to have a look for an inexpensive one on the internet. Also take into consideration that the view positions of LCD screens are a bit limited, which makes the integration into the desktop a bit clumsy. So just get by with the most handy viewing angle when you connect your Lcd monitor into the desktop.
OPTICAL DRIVE
You can use your laptop's optical drive with your PC, so long as your laptop PC is using an IDE based DVD drive. Just buy a PC IDE converter to permit communication between the motherboard and the laptop's IDE. If your PC has standard SATA cabling, a SATA optical drive should do the job. Building a home-based theatre PC is no difficult job either if you have a slot loading laptop optical drive.
THINGS TO Contemplate
You're also in luck if your laptop employs a wireless mouse or external optical drive, as you can automatically use this for your Computer without any problem. Remember that your laptop's SO-DIMM RAM won't work on the Computer so it might be better if you just sell your portable RAM and buy a PC kit as an alternative.
Last Research
One major advantage is that power consumption can be reduced after you have integrated your laptop PC parts into your desktop. Further modifications can always be made, but that's a topic for another day. For the moment, enjoy your changed desktop, or laptop. Oh well, it's your decision now!
Hard Drive
Laptops and desktops use the same interface, so there will not be any problems in integrating your laptop computer drive into your desktop elements. If your drive is using SERIAL ATA, you just have to push it into your motherboard's SATA data and power cables. If it's IDE, using an adaptor should allow you to use your IDE laptop computer hard drive with the Computer IDE cable.
LCD
This one will need some thinking over since the desktop uses analogue display technology (VGA), while the laptop PC LCD's are 100% digital. There isn't any way you may have communication between LCD and VGA since they are two different animals. By contrast, LCD's can only accept the correct digital input. There's one way to make it work, but you'll need to live with the incontrovertible fact that you have got to purchase another adaptor, which is a bit expensive. When you have made the choice to bump through, you've got to identify your laptop LCD's model and manufacturer, then find the mandatory adaptor for it. Like I said, it's a bit costly, so you may want to have a look for an inexpensive one on the internet. Also take into consideration that the view positions of LCD screens are a bit limited, which makes the integration into the desktop a bit clumsy. So just get by with the most handy viewing angle when you connect your Lcd monitor into the desktop.
OPTICAL DRIVE
You can use your laptop's optical drive with your PC, so long as your laptop PC is using an IDE based DVD drive. Just buy a PC IDE converter to permit communication between the motherboard and the laptop's IDE. If your PC has standard SATA cabling, a SATA optical drive should do the job. Building a home-based theatre PC is no difficult job either if you have a slot loading laptop optical drive.
THINGS TO Contemplate
You're also in luck if your laptop employs a wireless mouse or external optical drive, as you can automatically use this for your Computer without any problem. Remember that your laptop's SO-DIMM RAM won't work on the Computer so it might be better if you just sell your portable RAM and buy a PC kit as an alternative.
Last Research
One major advantage is that power consumption can be reduced after you have integrated your laptop PC parts into your desktop. Further modifications can always be made, but that's a topic for another day. For the moment, enjoy your changed desktop, or laptop. Oh well, it's your decision now!
About the Author:
Joseph Robertson is impassioned about helping people, particularly when it comes to laptops for college. Have a look at the blog for more in-depth info on picking the best laptops for college students.
