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My laptop, when it was working, had no trouble playing xbmc with Windows. That is, until the video decided to take a dive on me. Now, I have a laptop out of warranty with good parts. Has anyone been able to take a CPU from a laptop and throw it into some kind of htpc?
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Laptop CPUs are often soldered to their motherboards. Only thing you maybe could reuse is the RAM (in a Micro ATX build) and its HD/SSD.
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true, like if the RAM and HDD fit in a pre-built Nettop such as the ZOTAC ND22!
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Even if the CPU was in a socket, it will be a mobile specific socket, not one that occurs on desktop boards.
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