Improve your laptop!

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After searching for the “right” barrel port adapter too often I’ve had enough.

And made my intel Pentium M laptop into a USB-C powered Intel pentium M laptop : )

This project involves a usb-c “decoy board” which through USB power delivery requests 20V
The laptop normally runs on 19V

but the old brick gave roughly 18,6V and the new one 19,5V. So close enough :smiley:

Remove barrel port
Remove barrel port1200×1600 248 KB

New board
New board3024×4032 3.88 MB

Glued in place
Glued in place1200×1600 489 KB

Cutout
Cutout3024×1905 974 KB

final product
final product3024×4032 3.7 MB

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I’ve ‘only’ ever replaced wifi cards with ones with better Haiku drivers before - both modern ones and even one antique Mini-PCI Intel 2200 on a nearly 25 year old machine - as well as normal HDD->SSD and maxing out RAM. This is a level beyond