Meet the laptop you'll use in 2015

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by TheTarquin • 18 years ago

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acrylicist• 18 years ago

It really needs to be the size of a legal pad, use a stylus, abusable like a legal pad (very durable), WiFi, maybe e-paper for output. Nothing should slide, fold or twist--just a slab of input/computation/output. almost completely sealed, it should easily survive a coffee spill.

bonus points for something like ultravnc support so it can just be an extension of your desktop display.

TheTarquin• 18 years ago

Amen. My hope is that computers will become more and more "unitary", for lack of a better term. That is to say they'll become simpler in use, even while they're becoming more flexible and powerful in effect.

Basically I'm hoping that computers become better tools and not just better computers.

derefr• 18 years ago

> bonus points for something like ultravnc support so it can just be an extension of your desktop display.

I'm waiting for the day when just setting two tablet-like devices near one another makes them into one, larger screen. They could even snap into one another to form one huge, seamless slab. Of course, you'd need something a little more advanced than even remote X server/client sessions to get it to work, because someone might want to "tear off" an application in one corner and take it with them to the bathroom, behind a lead wall for some reason.

jbrun• 18 years ago

Look's like the Apple is going this way. Their iphone technology is exactly what you need for a full screen laptop. To make a device like this really work, both the hardware and software have to be re-designed. You cannot simply stick OSX or Vista on it and expect a good user experience.

Notably, the use of a stylus is very unnecessary. And IMHO, this is more like the laptop of 2010 or 2012 and it will be coming out from 1 infinity loop.

TrevorJ• 18 years ago

Ok, the one that mounts on your steering wheel is a HORRIBLE E idea!! Well, at least 'til we get cars that drive themselves.

aschobel• 18 years ago

Maybe they should have shown a picture of a clever looking mobile phone. Will people even bother with a laptop in 7 years if the have a slick Android/iPhone/etc device?

pchristensen• 18 years ago

Yes, if they benefit from a larger screen and full keyboard. Unless human eyes get much sharper and fingers get smaller in the next 7 years.

Zak• 18 years ago

I'm sure we'll see a few of these ideas - some may even become common, but in 2015, my laptop will still be a clamshell design. The clamshell design provides a proper keyboard with proper tactile feedback, a palm rest and an easily adjustable display. It's stable sitting on a lap, and closes up to protect the screen and keyboard from damage, or simply getting dirty.

I'll be using said laptop to write code in a variant of a programming language invented in 1958 using a variant of an editor invented in the '70s. My car will still have a steering wheel and be rear wheel drive. Some things just work until a truly disruptive technology comes along and completely changes the game. The clamshell laptop is one of those things, and I don't see anything truly disruptive in this article.

omouse• 18 years ago

I'll be using the OLPC! (Hopefully, if they deliver to Canada by then :P)

Meet the laptop you'll use in 2015

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