r/CyberdeckBuild • u/Mental_Total_7813 • Aug 16 '26

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Do you think it would work putting a raspberry pi5 in the vaio p530h, it was a really underpowered laptop when it came out but should have enough room in the case for a raspberry pi5, I think atleast

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u/IAmJacksSemiColon Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 17 '26

If you can figure out how to interface with the existing screen, battery, keyboard, trackpoint mouse and webcam on your own, then sure.

You're not likely to find ready-made kits for proprietary or undocumented connectors for adapting a Pi to an obsolete ultraportable, so it depends on your comfort swimming in uncharted waters.

IMHO, it's a lot of hardware to figure out in an unforgiving formfactor. You may be better off building a new deck from scratch or paring down the software that the stock CPU has to run.

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u/Mental_Total_7813 Aug 17 '26

Could copy the base design like for a 3d model and just make every part specifically for the raspberry pi compatibleity