Your preferred future Notebook development path

Mine:

1- Outside able screen
2- 17.3" tablet/transformer - in short a laptops with landscape/portrait ability.
3- Full day work on battery
4- Passive cooling
5- Additive GPU instead of the switching between GPU's.

 

would be cool if someday laptops just became little boxes the size of a business card that lay on a flat surface. the keyboard is all virtual you type on a projection of a keyboard and it tracks your hand movements. the screen would be projected as well, some kind of hologram. MAYBE in 20 years

 

That computer was invented in 1993. Unfortunately it was just on the TV show Time Trax. No keyboard though.

I also asked this question a few months back. Anywho, my ideal computer is the one that can be updated with just the removal of a few screws. Just like the standards for HDD and RAM, nothing useful should be any harder to replace than that.

 

1 - decrease weight without making the screen smaller
2 - see Asus Transformer but for a 15.6" screen
3 - double or triple current battery life
4 - smart nVidia clocking so you only need one GPU

 

- 12" tablet with HD+ RGBLED IPS screen with outdoor screen
- LV or ULV CPU
- 2.5" SSD or mSATA SSD
- 8-9 cell battery, 95+ WHr for all day computing, possible slice (Lenovo's 6/8 cell tablet batteries are kinda weak)
- Thunderbolt or XX replacing alot of legacy ports/connectors

Basically a hybrid between a MBA and X series ThinkPad would be great..

 

I second this. Tsunade and I were just talking about this, and I basically said the exact same thing

Specifically I'd really like all of the features of an X220 Tablet within the physical envelope of an MBA 13.

 

- standard keyboard format across all manufacturers.
- better cooling
- water cooling option (lol)
last one is possible lol **Project Terminated**: M17 Water Cooled Laptop

 

My laptop is just about perfect for me.

Reasonably priced
14"
Decent battery life
Mid-range GPU


I would only really like a 900p screen.

 

I'd say a decent LCD is the first in my list. It doesn't have to be a high resolution lcd, but it'd be nice if we could stop the onslaught of horrible 720p panels we get. IPS isn't a requirement, would be nice, but what i'd like is something that can at least be considered decent.

Tsunade's recommendation is something nice too.

 

Realistic expectations, quote me on these:

1. Lighter overall weight and thinnesses
2. Optical Drive is going to not be included in 90% of laptops in 5 years.
3. All day battery life is a realistic expectation... 10-14 hours in most high-end laptops in 3-4 years. Intel's Ivy Bridge, Haswell, and Rockwell architectures all plan on decreasing energy usage by a lot.
4. Discrete graphics cards are going to be reserved for only gaming laptops and workstation laptops in 4-5 years. Intel and AMD integrated solutions have already eaten up the low-end discrete card market and starting to cannibalize the mid-range.
5. SSDs will be in 75% of laptops in 5 years. Only the bargain laptops will have spinning hard drives.
6. Higher resolution displays. Resolution independence is a possibility. It has already been incorporated in small fragmentations in Mac OS X.

This is pure speculation, but I think there may be a chance that ARM starts getting incorporated into full-fledged notebooks. I know X86 dollar for dollar trounces ARM in performance, but ARM has been catching up since it's incorporation and watt for watt it is pretty damn good.

 

My ideal future notebook would be a 14-15" tablet PC (ie. has a keyboard) with IPS panel; SSD in the main HDD bay with swappable ODD bay for BD, HDD, battery, or weight saver; integrated graphics that supports 10-bit IPS panels with slim external desktop GPU; a thin but powerful PSU; and a slice battery option.

 

Top 3 on the wish list:

#1 - advancement in battery technology; li-ion is not going anywhere. I'd like to see 24-48 hours of battery life. Fuel cells, etc, something new.

#2 - thinner screen bezels. Some notebooks have ridiculously thick ones that just look terrible.

#3 - get rid of hard drives (this is already in progress, I suppose).

 

Most of the issues in terms of battery life comes from the screens being power hogs (and of course the battery tech effectively being stagnant for over 10 years).
I'm not saying that more efficient CPU's aren't desirable and all, but solely focusing on that to improve battery life is a bit pointless because virtually everything in a laptop is far more energy efficient than the screen itself.

 

Which is why the technology in alternative screens development is moving so rapidly. Likewise, I need a laptop where I can replace one as easily as I screw in a new high efficiency light bulb.

Because every place in the entire world will have reliable high speed data service? The demise of the optical data disc is greatly exaggerated.

You realize that high-end laptops are owned by energy hogs.

As they should be; I'm not seeing a problem with that.

Not really necessary or of much use for the rank and file. But purest and professionals will be demanding it.

 

didn't Samsung promise us that there would be an Amoled laptop by now?

 

1. Higher screen resolutions.

 

A Sandy Bridge version of the Asus Transformer running Windows 8, I guess.

 

1. Replace batteries with tiny motors that generate electricity, possibly giving roughly unlimited "battery" life.
2. KILL 768p in 13"+ laptops. 900p+ standard
3. SSDs become standard fare

 

I'm sorry, what? Motors that generate electricity?

 

I saw something on the Science Channel (or History?) talking about mirco motors (about the size of your fingertip) and the guy saying something along the lines of "If you string a few of these together, you could replace the batteries in laptops". I'll try to find a link.

 

^ Are those like kinetic movement batteries in watches? Wouldn't it require you to move the laptop?

I think ultrabooks is already the direction I like notebooks heading... just want them to bring WUXGA (or higher) resolution back.

 

Provided you're not talking about the mad cracks on youtube with "motors that generate elctricity from permanent magnets" then I guess that's ok. Then there's the guy who claims to have made a car which runs solely on water (as in splits it into hydrogen and oxygen and then burns it again, without any input of energy), but that's a whole different kettle of fish.

 

- Smaller screen bezels to reduce the overall size of the laptop.

- All-day battery life or at least hot-swappable batteries (either slice battery add-ons or an integrated mini-battery that gives you a couple minutes to swap batteries).

- Improved integrated GPUs and GPU drivers to allow for mid-level 3D gaming without huge hits to battery life.

- Improved screen quality at the base level - resolutions don't necessarily need to change, but color reproduction, brightness, and viewing angles should get better.

- (dreaming) A paradigm shift away from pixel-based screen technology so that resolution worries are a thing of the past.

@privatejarhead - I like the motors thing. I'm thinking you breed tiny little hamsters, then put them in the body of the laptop in a hamster wheel connected to a tiny little van de Graaf generator. They can feed off of the dust that collects in the chassis and drink from a little reservoir that collects condensation on cold days. Once your hamster dies, you can either go to the cyberpet store to buy a new one or consider your laptop obsolete and replace it. The latter option is probably what you'll end up doing, because by the time your hamster's died the new computers will have tiny velociraptors powering them, and raptors are just so much COOLER!

 

Sounds like you'd need two things for that to work: an alternator in the laptop chassis which takes up space and produces heat and noise, and a fuel source for the little motors which would produce exhaust. In other words, you're suggesting that laptops be powered by miniature generators rather than batteries.

I imagine that this kind of setup would, at least initially, be bigger, louder, and hotter than a battery while offering much less power to the components and producing exhaust from your laptop. I see this sort of thing as something that someone does in their garage or basement as a sort of proof-of-concept, with the result being a low-power netbook running loud and hot in the chassis of a 17"+ notebook and not being mobile for fear of upsetting the delicate balance of parts in the makeshift power source. Eventually this kind of technology might go somewhere, but it would probably take at least half a decade of work to get a proper version up and running and ready for mass-production.

 

was thinking about microsoft's decision to support kinect for the pc, then i thought...it would be cool if it'll also be on laptops....then came the thought of how stupid i'd look in a bus, airport or train doing all these gestures on a machines less than a foot away from you.

 

Nah, there was a thread here where a bunch of guys and I debunked "free energy".

 

VAIO Z2 with Nvidia Keppler graphc card and with more USB ports