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    What's the next big thing?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by purplegreendave, May 3, 2008.

  1. purplegreendave

    purplegreendave Has a notebook.

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    With SSD's relatively common these days, what is the next big in laptop hardware?

    USB 3.0?
    New batteries?
     
    purplegreendave, May 3, 2008
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  2. lolpie

    lolpie Notebook Consultant

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  3. notyou

    notyou Notebook Deity

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    Cool, didn't realize that the battery tech was so apparently close to being commercially available.
     
    notyou, May 3, 2008
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    ExiledDuke Notebook Consultant

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    hot news. ty for the info.

    those might be available before SSD becomes practical (lol)
     
    ExiledDuke, May 3, 2008
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    joshuaLX Notebook Evangelist

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    Nehalem is going to be nice.
     
    joshuaLX, May 3, 2008
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  6. Jayayess1190

    Jayayess1190 Waiting on Intel Cannonlake

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    So will USB 3.0, cheap SSD drives, DDR3 ram, Bluetooth 3.0, Windows 7, Office 14 (aka 2009/2010) and the Sandisk Vaulter.
     
    Jayayess1190, May 3, 2008
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  7. tloc9880

    tloc9880 Notebook Geek

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    Whats this Sandisk Vaulter??
     
    tloc9880, May 3, 2008
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  8. ExiledDuke

    ExiledDuke Notebook Consultant

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    google is your friend man.
     
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    ahl395 Ahlball

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    In batteries, apparantly someone is making batteries "Hot-Swappable". So you dont have to power down the laptop before switching the battery. Seems simple to me... Just put a small celled battery in the PC that will hold the charge a a few minutes while the owner changes the main battery.

    BTW, what are going to be advantages of USB 3.0 and Bluetooth 3.0?
     
    ahl395, May 3, 2008
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  10. Jayayess1190

    Jayayess1190 Waiting on Intel Cannonlake

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    USB 3.0
    Quote from PC Mag: "The third-generation Universal Serial Bus interconnect will transfer data at speeds up to 4.8Gbit/s, ten times faster than USB 2.0's 480MBit/s. It will be backwards-compatible with USB 2.0, which is backwards-compatible with the first USB 1.1 definition."

    Bluetooth 3.0
    Quote from Wikipedia: "The next version of Bluetooth after v2.1, code-named Seattle (the version number of which is TBD) has many of the same features, but is most notable for plans to adopt ultra-wideband (UWB) radio technology. This will allow Bluetooth use over UWB radio, enabling very fast data transfers of up to 480 Mbit/s, while building on the very low-power idle modes of Bluetooth."

    Quote from crutchfield: "The new standard is reportedly up to 160 times as fast as Bluetooth 2.1"
     
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  11. The Fire Snake

    The Fire Snake Notebook Virtuoso

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    Your avatar made me crack up. I love it :D
     
    The Fire Snake, May 4, 2008
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  12. b534202

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    They should let us pop in a pair of AA's.

    But there's the problem of eventually you ruining your hard disk by flipping the laptop over and over when its still on. So they'll have to wait for cheap SSD first. :p
     
    b534202, May 4, 2008
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    tloc9880 Notebook Geek

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    Google was broke so I had to use Yahoo! :p
     
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  14. dmacfour

    dmacfour Are you aware...

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    More than likely the laptop will go into temporary suspension while you swap batteries.
     
    dmacfour, May 4, 2008
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