So the other day I unplugged the AC adapter from my laptop and it returned the favor with a puff of smoke. Some testing later on showed that the entire laptop works perfectly fine except the AC plug is shot (smells of burning and no power reaches the laptop when plugged in).

Again, everything works fin provided I use the battery, but now that it ran out of juice I'm looking for a way to salvage the components.

So far, all I've come up with is making an external hard drive from the laptop HD and stick the processor in a shuttle PC barebones kit. That would run about $200 total. Which is less than what it would cost to repair the thing.

Anyone know of a good way to salvage more out of it? Are their no boards out there that take a pentium M chip and some SODIMM RAM? I saw one Mini ITX board, but it consists mostly of serial ports, which is not very useful for me.