Or perhaps you're used to working on only one display and find the open laptop too distracting. In such cases, it's best to just work with your laptop lid closed. Here's how to set it up.

Most laptops today come with an inbuilt feature that turns on automatically when you open its lid. You can also make the screen go off when you close the laptop lid. That way, you would not need ...

Byran Huang, a senior high school student from the Phillips Exeter Academy, built a fully open-source laptop as his fall term senior project, and it took him just six months to finish it.