Recent content by Essence of Flowers

Hello all, I am finally out of the medical wood-works for now. Wanted to chime back in on my thoughts looking over things while I sat in bed. One of the main things i learned while researching which sounds similar to everyone else is, for better or worse, the mobile realm of technology is...

An update to this project since it's been a bit. Budgeting and planning has completed. The final product is looking to be 1300USD, most likely going to be a few hundred more to have protocase do a metal chassis if I decide to get one, but if not a 3D printed chassis will work for the time being...

question for the folks who got their hands on the X600TM, does the 3.2 USB-C port support display/ethernet passthrough?

Any update on this yet? The X600TM looks like a very promising motherboard, if they actually got one to you that'd be amazing.

Yeah this basically got me back to my drawing board of maybe using an openUPS, my plans at this point is fully build the laptop and have the picoPSU do some stress testing, see what my peak wattage is, and assuming it doesnt exceed certain limits we go from there.

so I wanted to write a status update here regarding battery systems. As previously mentioned its probably one of the most complicated aspects of builds like these. I was previously investigating MiniBox's solutions of OpenUPS models vs building an entire system from scratch. I can happily say...

Oh I'd love to learn CAD software but since this is gonna be an ambitious project im going to have my partner handle it, they're far more experienced with making CADs and wanted to help contribute to this project by 3D printing a prototype chassis. In terms of rough drawings ive done im...

I've had half the mind almost to use two OpenUPS2 to power the system, putting us at the 200w needed to reach what HDP can achieve. Certain workstation GPUs like the radeon w7500 has been benchmarked to only take around 150w accounting for the full system load + a heavy workload. However this...

Yeah this is essentially a fork of devotion laptop, since as this build comes more to fruition its definitely going to be an undertaking of a thread. On the topic of batteries since its been my focus lately. It is definitely possible to get a dGPU rig with a battery but its going to be VERY...

That AMD board is actually pretty good, the price tag is a little steep but having an eDP connector inherently is definitely a benefit since it means any LCD panels could just have a direct input rather than using a controller board. on the note of LCD panels the 13.3 kit by ASRock doesn't...

Yeah my main reason for going off road into a mini-ITX board instead of sticking with thin is purely because its a market dominated by Intel. The only AMD boards are both not really what im looking for due to the lack of PCIe, but also from what I've researched the newer board, the X600TM, is...

Alright, that's about what i was thinking, i had planned out a low profile PSU, probably pico but I may need to go with a larger one depending on goal and space budget, followed up with the OpenUPS + a charging board. I'm slightly considering the idea of a dGPU, its just it adds a lot of...

Brushing back on this because im getting close to some drawups and budgeting being done. Is OpenUPS a substitute for a PSU/acts as a PSU? I've been researching it a bit and cannot find a straight answer on that. I've been considering using it + a pico PSU for a low power dGPU but i cannot pin if...

Intent of this thread is to provide a place for ideas and concepts for ITX laptops. Ill start by documenting every viable idea I've run by to make such projects feasible.

I think to avoid derailing too hard we should start a thread either in Mods or Hardware. I'm getting close to drawing up some plans for mine so i might start a general "ITX laptops/workstation" thread there. I just wanna prepare more meat and potatoes before i start one