Forum Overview :: American McGee's Honda Civic :: I'm going to break character and give you some advice.

[quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"]No I'm not. Wai-- [quote name="serial malcontent"]That laptop is trash to demonstrate what you can run on trash this way. I made this thread because I've built some of these external card setups for locals in my area and made a profit off of them 'cause they're in cases made of environmentally friendly recycled aluminum we brushed by hand to appeal to hippie-ass mac buyer sensibilities. Except they don't work over USB. The local nerds working with me claim they can do the grunt work to find out if they can market it more broadly if we can get it to run over USB 3.0, and the datarates don't look impossible to manage. I find myself needing a reality check before I'm ass-deep in parts with no orders so I thought asking Caltrops about upscaling a locally successful business for a reality check. Maybe we can treat this like a game development thread. How stupid is this and where will it fail hardest?[/quote] It's fine. I usually have to put a laptop in a bin when it gets too old to run anything. So why not upgrade it? If you can figure out a way to nicely get the cables inside the laptop then you're really onto something. Is USB 3.0 a requirement? I guess it's the easiest way to make it happen, yeah. (My bin of laptops are for shit like how you can hook a device up that emulates an Atari 800 or whatever.) The only real downside I see is that you may be called on for eternal tech support from your customers. Like, you touched it last and now something is broken, I demand you fix it. My gaming laptop can't run Road Redemption very well. Am I a possible future customer?? ICJ[/quote]