I read that when building a laptop you need to get a barebones laptop. But what is one? What is in it?
Its just the laptop shell with display, usually the motherboard and CPU, and the video (usually onboard). You add your own quantity of memory and hard drive. Sometimes you also add your own optical drive (DVDRW), but that my be included in the barebone too. Barebone just means less than complete. It could only be missing a hard drive and be considered a barebone.
you have to add ram, a hard drive, and a OS and that is it there is not much you can do with a barebones laptop just buy a prebuilt one
Barebone laptops are those which only comes with Mother Board. It means that these laptops does not have Hard Drives, RAM and OS which you have to purchase separately and install it.