Suitcase nuke PC case mod
By Barb Dybwad 
posted March 28th 2005 3:16PM
posted March 28th 2005 3:16PM
Paul Richardson has given new meaning to the words "travel notebook." It's not the specs that will wow anyone (Duron 1.6 GHz/512MB DDR/40GB) — it's the fact that the computer and a Samsung Syncmaster 570V 17-inch TFT monitor are all stuffed into a simple camera case. The computer is mounted with custom-made aluminum rails and a handmade plexiglass cover and is completely fanless internally (fans live on the side of the camera case and suck air through grills mounted on the CPU and power supply). The machine dual boots Linux and Windows 98 (another spec that never has and never will wow anyone), and Paul has high hopes of actually stuffing a 19-inch monitor in there as an upgrade. You go.
Suitcase PC's are quite an old, and common type of computer modification.
I have seen better and faster suitcase PC's, or did I miss something?
This is so lame. Must have been a slow news day at Engadget
take it to the airport, i'm sure they'll love it.
Err... am I missing something? Wouldn't it just have been easier to put a laptop in the suitcase? If you really want to get fancy, you could put straps around the laptop lid so that when you open the suitcase, the laptop opens too.
Not to put this guy's work down -- sure it must have been pretty time consuming -- but really isn't very interesting...
Wow... and I would have just used a laptop. Seriously... am I missing something here?
It looks like an amusing way to make use of some spare parts!
It's a cool project! Just keep it in perspective.
A good reason to build a suitcase computer is to allow a third-party graphics card to be installed. In some cases, laptop graphics chips may not be sufficiently powerful to run a needed application. Also laptop manufacturers are famous for not upgrading the driver software for their embedded chips. A suitcase computer allows you to use a card (ATI/nVidia these days) with frequently patched drivers.
like 7 points out, this comboes the upgradeability of a desktop with the transportability of a laptop. perfect for lan-partys or other places where you want to bring along a pc that need a power cable to work :P
Hey James Cook: It does not look to be enough room to install any kind of video card like you say. It probably has a chipset on board and no AGP or PCI cards in there due to their hieght.