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Another year goes by, and much has transpired with the Devotion project. The progress warrants a change in thread status from Concept to Prototype. Here is the update for the year of 2025. // Chassis redesign The chassis has been significantly redesigned since the last prototype. The...

I think the slim golden flower / golden field heatsink would be too thick currently, as in, it'd be poking out of the keyboard area, which is how I got into heatpipe heatsinks like the Intel HTS1155LP. But this may be an interesting idea for a version with a 15" display for example, where there...

@plstcks This is good info, thanks. So the barrier to entry isn't quite as high as I thought - I didn't know the heatpipe clamps were off-the-shelf. I'll drop you a message on Discord. @Essence of Flowers Good points about touch panels and oculink...I'm still getting set up with the whole...

That's right, broadly the same kind of USB HID reporting you could expect out of the OpenUPS/2. We should have operating system (Windows/Linux) reporting for AC presence, remaining capacity, and run time to empty (RTE), as well as various other readable values. We're still working through it...

I'll have to do some research on this display driver board thing. Since there are so many permutations, it might be sensible to do multiple versions, instead of having one giant board with every kind of input and output on it. The point about OLED and LCD panels is true...that suggests that it...

Cool stuff, looks like good progress! Nice to see the X600TM-ITX becoming available too. Your point about a communal standard particularly interests me, because standards (rather than heavily custom one-offs) are very much the focus of my project (Devotion laptop) as well, and there's a lot to...

I'm biased, but I think it's a good call going with the OpenUPS2 for simplicity. And in particular a good call going with LVDS - something I ended up doing for the first Devotion prototype as well, after struggling to implement a clean eDP solution for a long time. Wish you good health and good...

Just coming back on your requirements, assuming it's the 8700G - I feel sure you should be able to run a build like that with considerably less than 150W, because that sounds crazy high! The highest such figure I can see there is this TechSpot review where they report 148W ingame, and they also...

Ah seems you're right about the X600TM-ITX...I'd just seen a few places saying it was available via Taobao/ParcelUp, but I haven't actually tried to buy one yet. I can't speak with authority about Intel vs AMD on Linux, just that I have used both for some time now and I feel like I've run into...

It's a good point about the 8700G APU outperforming the RX 6400. The tradeoff between DGPU and APU is hard to get right. An APU-focused build obviously simplifies just about everything - cost, space, power and thermal requirements...so it depends on how valuable the advantages of a DGPU are to...

Ah yeah these, this is a great spot! Quite unusual. So it's an eDP cable and display which is selected to be compatible with those ASRock eDP boards. That's probably the first time I've come across an eDP cable with those connectors which is available off-the-shelf; those connectors being...

You're right that there is still some flex, which can cause a little display wobbling during use. Though I think it has more to do with the design of the lower chassis, and where I placed the hinges on it; see this CAD drawing of the lower chassis for what I mean: I'm focusing on the left...

Hey there, many thanks for the input - and thanks to everyone else for the continued interest! Apologies for the delay, I hadn't checked the thread in a while...maybe now I have email notifications set up properly? I'd planned to give a proper status update on the project near the end of this...

Understandable, well, if you have an idea about how you want to pack things into the space (whether side-by-side or on top of each other), then that helps. Everything in my prototype is side-by-side, which makes it wider, but less thick. Of course, it's also space-inefficient and some components...

Sure - it sounds like the Framework 13 might suit you in principle, since it's only 11.6" x 9", and you can get the DIY edition to build it yourself for cheaper. But it depends on what kind of criteria or objectives you have in mind. I didn't explain this in the OP, but the Framework 13 just...