With how affordable laptops are now, it’s rare to see anyone wanting to build their own. Byran did just that, and exceptionally well to boot, complete with an anodized CNC aluminum chassis that wouldn’t look out of place at CES.
This Linux-based laptop features a 13.3″ Samsung 4K AMOLED screen, a Rockchip RK3588 ARM SoC, support for up to 32GB of RAM, one of the world’s thinnest wireless mechanical keyboards, an Azoteq touchpad, Digikey speakers, and a 60Wh battery with USB-C charging. Sure, this project isn’t for everyone, but a great weekend project if you have the technical know how.
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As someone who used to work in a company that designed modern electronic devices like this, I can only say this is truly insane – you’ve achieved largely on “your own” what would be usually built by a team of 10+ EEs with masters level education. Of course, this wouldn’t be possible without the modern amenities like relatively cheap full-blown PCBA & CNC facilities which has teams of ppl work there, the internet for all the supplies, but still – this is god-level amount of work put in this. And to have the skill to also present it this well… one in a billion engineer right here,” said one commenter.
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