hey geeks! lets share some ideas and points of view.
what features do you find cool in laptops? ( for example, alienware has the alienFX in which you can customise the lights and their colors)
so what cool thing is there in other laptops?and what do you wish to see in laptops?
share your ideas!
I wish for:
- better cooling!
- better case locks and screen hinges!
- better build quality
- ssd
- longer battery life
- standard keyboard layout across all vendors!
I wish for :

- Super Slim Designs.
- Lightweight.
- SSDs at lower price.
- Backlit Keyboards. (<- this is awesome)
- A revolution in batteries (Not the traditional ones) with way better battery life.
- On board sensors (GPS, etc...)
Georges wroteI wish for :

- Super Slim Designs.
- Lightweight.
- SSDs at lower price.
- Backlit Keyboards. (<- this is awesome)
- A revolution in batteries (Not the traditional ones) with way better battery life.
- On board sensors (GPS, etc...)
That's Macbook Air written all over it
better cooling!
better cooling!
better cooling!

As soon as you stress the CPU a little bit, all laptops die. I have state-of-the-art external cooling systems and most my laptops overheat when launching a slightly heavy compilation, or graphic manipulation.
MrClass wrote
Georges wroteI wish for :

- Super Slim Designs.
- Lightweight.
- SSDs at lower price.
- Backlit Keyboards. (<- this is awesome)
- A revolution in batteries (Not the traditional ones) with way better battery life.
- On board sensors (GPS, etc...)
That's Macbook Air written all over it
Hehehe. I know :P
rahmu wrotebetter cooling!
better cooling!
better cooling!

As soon as you stress the CPU a little bit, all laptops die. I have state-of-the-art external cooling systems and most my laptops overheat when launching a slightly heavy compilation, or graphic manipulation.
That's an HP ! Man, get a Vaio for god's sake ! (F series is the best - other models suffer from overheat)
Laptop water cooling (localized and radiator)

Vapor Chamber air cooling

Better thermal paste applied

Motherboards that support low voltage Core i5 processors with SLI support (580s OC + Core i5 OC watercooled on a 10 inch notebook anyone?)

ATX-level power supplies (to support heavy loads)

High density 10 inch / 17 inch monitors (2560x1600)

Better sound card solutions (non-external)

Slots for 1.8" SSD + 2.5" HDD (fast SSD for boot + 1TB 2.5" for storage) in small notebooks
Slots for 2 x 2.5" SSD / HDD (fast SSD + 1TB or 2TB storage)

Support for 3D output (all of them)

Get rid of Atom processors (or at least until Intel's next architecture)

No slim kaboozle (inferior monitors + inferior mobo + inferior cooling + inferior battery), but it should be sleek

Get rid of Ultrabooks (netbooks already fit such purposes, but they have a limited market)

Good LED lighting on keyboard for night-times (no need for LED changing but can be there, blue is clearest)

Carbon Fibre bottoms (conduct heat away fast)
rahmu wrotebetter cooling!
better cooling!
better cooling!

As soon as you stress the CPU a little bit, all laptops die. I have state-of-the-art external cooling systems and most my laptops overheat when launching a slightly heavy compilation, or graphic manipulation.
Do you re-apply thermal paste on your laptops?
yasamoka wroteDo you re-apply thermal paste on your laptops?
No, and I shouldn't have to :-|
i wish the new macbook would have:
-an nvidia 3d vision technology graphics card with about 2GB of vram
-the macbook logo below the screen would be backlit, and the light color changes according to the battery percentage (like alienware)
-a fingerprint sensor
-same glass multitouch trackpad
-a more affordable price
-ipad battery life
-wider compatibility range.
rahmu wrote
yasamoka wroteDo you re-apply thermal paste on your laptops?
No, and I shouldn't have to :-|
Yes but in some instances it lowers temperatures anything between 10-20-30 degrees celsius.
Why doesn't Apple make a Macbook Pro series with a touch screen? I mean Lion now has many features taken from iOS. SO why not use an ipad screen (stretch is a little bit) and have it on a macbook pro?
khalil13 wrotehey geeks! lets share some ideas and points of view.
what features do you find cool in laptops? ( for example, alienware has the alienFX in which you can customise the lights and their colors)
so what cool thing is there in other laptops?and what do you wish to see in laptops?
share your ideas!
Dual board laptop.
One is ARM with tiny Linux, brower, document editor, skype and few other things onboard. Consumption is very low, so if you interpolate with battery of laptop - it is more than 24 hours of work should be. They are tiny now, look to iphone as example. If it has separate storage - it can be "secure" place to keep important things, and to restore main board system if it is broken (software issues). This board also can play music in background for many hours, can work in background to download some data, or wakeup main computer on some event.

Second board is normal CPU. If design is enough proper, it can use ARM board as "offloading" device, DSP and etc.
This design is reality now: http://www.ubergizmo.com/2010/09/cupp-laptop-has-arm-and-x86-processors-for-instant-on-access/

Another idea, smartphone extender.
Big keyboard and screen, battery, it looks like superslim laptop, but in fact it turns smartphone in a laptop.
You know that most of smartphones have now more RAM and flash that regular computer. The only downside - they are too tiny to do serious work on them.
So what they need? LCD screen (and adapter for it), keyboard, more battery for all those, maybe USB hub for additional storage and peripherals. It is not yet laptop, but it will make you to have laptop :-)
nuclearcat wrote
khalil13 wrotehey geeks! lets share some ideas and points of view.
what features do you find cool in laptops? ( for example, alienware has the alienFX in which you can customise the lights and their colors)
so what cool thing is there in other laptops?and what do you wish to see in laptops?
share your ideas!
Dual board laptop.
One is ARM with tiny Linux, brower, document editor, skype and few other things onboard. Consumption is very low, so if you interpolate with battery of laptop - it is more than 24 hours of work should be. They are tiny now, look to iphone as example. If it has separate storage - it can be "secure" place to keep important things, and to restore main board system if it is broken (software issues). This board also can play music in background for many hours, can work in background to download some data, or wakeup main computer on some event.

Second board is normal CPU. If design is enough proper, it can use ARM board as "offloading" device, DSP and etc.
This design is reality now: http://www.ubergizmo.com/2010/09/cupp-laptop-has-arm-and-x86-processors-for-instant-on-access/
Actually, this idea sounds a lot like Windows Sideshow, a technology Microsoft touted as being a highlight of the Vista era. It got extinct soon though. But your idea sounds like something that could work...but then again the motherboard is already cramped enough and fitting two boards will force a lower size standard on the main board, reducing performance / quality / thermal efficiency.
Apple doesn't CHOOSE to make it slimmer next year and they are already able to this year...transistor manufacturing processes get reduced (65nm -- 45nm -- 32nm or 65nm -- 55nm -- 40nm -- 28nm) and heat output and power consumption decrease...power efficiency increases, performance increases, chip can get smaller if you don't fill it again with more transistors (now that you have smaller ones)...and you have a slimmer design. Remember PS2 phat, PS2 slim, PSP phat, PSP slim, PSP Go, and PS3 phat, then PS3 slim? Same thing.
Any laptop where the transistors are plugged out and replaced with either the new 3D models or memristors, hence giving a new generation of memory chips, and a quantum CPU won't hurt either
yasamoka wroteBut your idea sounds like something that could work...but then again the motherboard is already cramped enough and fitting two boards will force a lower size standard on the main board, reducing performance / quality / thermal efficiency.
Check
http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/raspberry-pi-25-pc-goes-into-alpha-production-20110728/
:)

And about fitting anything in laptop check
http://beta.ivc.no/wiki/index.php/Eee_PC_Internal_Upgrades
Cleaned up some stuff that could lead to a flamewar. Stick to the topic guys!
nuclearcat wrote
yasamoka wroteBut your idea sounds like something that could work...but then again the motherboard is already cramped enough and fitting two boards will force a lower size standard on the main board, reducing performance / quality / thermal efficiency.
Check
http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/raspberry-pi-25-pc-goes-into-alpha-production-20110728/
:)

And about fitting anything in laptop check
http://beta.ivc.no/wiki/index.php/Eee_PC_Internal_Upgrades
Nice first link by the way...saw something like this and it has huge potential...it's about equivalent to the size of an SD card reader.

Yes well the EEE PC is still low-end...not high-end desktop replacement.

@mesa177 Extremely nice ideas but still quite a long way off from mass production, especially the quantum CPUs...scary...The memristor was an idea proposed is 1960 but just took off 2008, so this and 3D transistors look like the nearest revolutionary technologies to come.

EDIT: @nuclearcat just read the first article carefully with images...I love! I'm gonna take apart my netbook and probably yank a flash drive in there then install a flavor of Linux and have some fast boot / less power consumption. What flavor do you advise for netbooks? I don't know much in Linux I'm afraid. I'm probably only going to run Firefox / some download manager / routing on virtual access point.