Usually disk drives are mounted in the same case as the motherboard; formerly, expansion chassis were made for additional disk storage.
Part of this plan involved pouring freshly brewed hot coffee into disk drives and motherboards.
Upgrade options may be limited by the non-standard motherboards, cramped interior space, and power and airflow concerns.
Both designs incorporate a switch board and a motherboard which were connected by a 12-pin ribbon cable.
The motherboard had a non-standard form factor, 118 mm 153 mm 38 mm small.
Originally, the motherboard was powered by one 20-pin connector.
The laptop was infamous for a huge number of design failures, overheating, battery failures, connector loosening, motherboard failures.
From about 2007 it became common for better-quality computer motherboards to use only polymer capacitors where wet electrolytics had been used previously.
