long battery life, portability, a laptop with decent speakers which at the moment doesnt exist, large storage and speed, basically the moon on a stick, brave project but not possible.
Like you, Gabriel, one of my primary desires for a laptop is portability - weight and bulkiness are the two big factors here - but I like it to have a decent-sized screen.
In any case, for me, the worst thing about carrying a laptop about with me is the stupid mains adapter. Why do PCs always have such an awful, bulky, cumbersome mains adapter?
I'd like to see one much, much smaller and less awkward to put into a bag. I don't know about anyone else, but I find the plug ends up either jabbing me in the hip or causing the bag to jut out... or I have to take a bigger bag.
Also, Apple has proven that magnetic connectors work... so why has no one else used that approach with PCs?
I think the printer area of computing is also at a new phase of 'why are printers still like the way they are and what can be improved' I think printers need to be reinvented. For this i think laser is more the way forward, but that would be too easy. Therefore ink, if Ink is here to stay then because the printer has improved a mass of an amount in the last 10 years and now using Bluetooth and USB, the internal workings itself need to refine its engine like a Mercedes car engine - therefore - how about a new revolutionary print head that doesn't move side to side on a stainless steel slide track system as you see now. I think the print head should be contained in a fool proof static or stationary no moving bar and incorparted within this bar, a very new 'intelligent, smart' print head. It'll still need to be fed with ink, but just as with a laser print head type of device. I think a static ink bar print head which could be even finer and more precise than what we have now. They'll be less moving parts and taking less space up which is vital ! For this the printer shape as we know it can eventually be mistaken for a 'scanner'. If the ink printer was more like a scanner, then how much better and if you could tip this 'new printer' upside down without any ink leaking, then good. Therefore in their new sealable 'bags' small plastic bags full of ink. (Not plastic containers) as is now. Ink will be fed via microtubes and coupled up like a car brake system. People might think this is more of a fiddle. No. Because the new 'flat scanner like printer' will give more benefits. It'll look better !
Then how does the paper move through the printer? In the same type of way. But on a flat conveyor or air belt system. All this will have to be looked into. But i think todays printers are too basic is there 'one minded' of todays approach and are in need for some real development. The USB and Sata didn't arrive here in an overnight express train of easy thought, nor did Bluetooth. Printers need a new approach and i think a one piece none moving 'intelligent ink bar' is needed.
Yeah i'd agree with a notebook or desktop with a solid state drive, definitely. Vista is also 100% fine by me and considering i think more Brand Name computers of today are much more reliable, which i know too well than PC's of the 1990's. I'm interested in using the USB more in terms of storing 'a program' such as Microsoft Office on a USB key instead of a CD or DVD. I would like to see the day when all programs such as Vista are on USB or SD card. SD and USB therfore i think play a vital role well into the future of computing. I would like to see computers with a more photo related program that can pin-point the actual print out size of a screen to printer related photo, with a new type of one screen tape measure or ruler that the 'user' can place with finger or cursor over the photo and if the ruler gives a 1" 1/8th of an inch size on a photo display then that's what the print out will definitely be. So a new sleek designed on screen moveable ruler within a future MS Office program. Just like having a drawing board and i think this could help architects more as well. Maybe an old fashioned idea, but i think a good one.
I like to see all computers with 2GB of Ram, even though 1GB is fine, 2GB is. We notice how well a computer is when we start using Large file sized JPegs and graphics. So power should be available to cheap PC's / Notebooks as well and what's the excuse manufacturers? No need for 512mb Ram anymore.
I'd like to see an ultra quiet PC/Notebook. More of a PC desktop related issue. Maybe water cooled CPU's are more the way forward as i read an article on the Intel site regarding this.
Sata cables aren't an issue - as they're already here! Good. Very alike HDMI ! Brilliant. They go hand in hand.
I'd like to see when installing an OS such as Vista 'a one button install' so to speak. I think the user shouldn't have to format or partition a computer when installing an OS, even though the program such as Vista almost does this for you anyway in an easy way. I don't know as i've never installed Vista, but have installed Apple Jaguar and Windows XP (XP wasn't nice at all to install and looked ugly in it's on screen install. Jaguar was really more pleasant, so i hope and think Vista is the same. The OS program should auto, partition the PC for you with no onscreen instruction installation at all and XP or Vista shouldn't really have any need in 'the Future of computing' which is maybe here - for any computer to need anything called partition. I think the word partition, should be a thing of the past and looked into more, if this hasn't already been done so. I think it nonsense this partioning a PC hard drive space into 2 or 3 sectors or whatever. This to me is what an 'open' computer means. No need for any trap doors or different rooms, Everything regarding a PC should be contained within 1 room so to speak. And if not then the answers should be worked on, which i think computing is more or less at now.
LCD Clear Brightview monitors are already here, which is good. But maybe computers of the future will project a moveable display which beams out of a keyboard or desktop or 'laptop keypad', onto a blank wall surface or wooden house interior wall. Therefore no need for a monitor at all.
I think the computer on/off switch should be replaced with a less likely to repair ! scan or voice activated device. (Which is where computers are already at now) A finger scan or a unique barcode scan on/off device i'd consider maybe more likely to be 100% accurate than a voice activated switch on/off way of computing? Therefore why does a PC need an On/Off button anymore.
i would like a laptop with a large HDD, some 2 or 3 GB of RAM, a large-ish screen, and some great software for Mr. Average Kid, and keys that are well posistioned! i cant stand keyboard with keys that are so close together!
This echoes all my thoughts on the subject, weight and battery life in particular. Bluetooth also.....yes I agree with every point.
long battery life, portability, a laptop with decent speakers which at the moment doesnt exist, large storage and speed, basically the moon on a stick, brave project but not possible.
Like you, Gabriel, one of my primary desires for a laptop is portability - weight and bulkiness are the two big factors here - but I like it to have a decent-sized screen.
In any case, for me, the worst thing about carrying a laptop about with me is the stupid mains adapter. Why do PCs always have such an awful, bulky, cumbersome mains adapter?
I'd like to see one much, much smaller and less awkward to put into a bag. I don't know about anyone else, but I find the plug ends up either jabbing me in the hip or causing the bag to jut out... or I have to take a bigger bag.
Also, Apple has proven that magnetic connectors work... so why has no one else used that approach with PCs?
Personally all I need is something that does not have all those little applets that you cant turn off and get in the way.
And an analogue volume control.
I think the printer area of computing is also at a new phase of 'why are printers still like the way they are and what can be improved' I think printers need to be reinvented. For this i think laser is more the way forward, but that would be too easy. Therefore ink, if Ink is here to stay then because the printer has improved a mass of an amount in the last 10 years and now using Bluetooth and USB, the internal workings itself need to refine its engine like a Mercedes car engine - therefore - how about a new revolutionary print head that doesn't move side to side on a stainless steel slide track system as you see now. I think the print head should be contained in a fool proof static or stationary no moving bar and incorparted within this bar, a very new 'intelligent, smart' print head. It'll still need to be fed with ink, but just as with a laser print head type of device. I think a static ink bar print head which could be even finer and more precise than what we have now. They'll be less moving parts and taking less space up which is vital ! For this the printer shape as we know it can eventually be mistaken for a 'scanner'. If the ink printer was more like a scanner, then how much better and if you could tip this 'new printer' upside down without any ink leaking, then good. Therefore in their new sealable 'bags' small plastic bags full of ink. (Not plastic containers) as is now. Ink will be fed via microtubes and coupled up like a car brake system. People might think this is more of a fiddle. No. Because the new 'flat scanner like printer' will give more benefits. It'll look better !
Then how does the paper move through the printer? In the same type of way. But on a flat conveyor or air belt system. All this will have to be looked into. But i think todays printers are too basic is there 'one minded' of todays approach and are in need for some real development. The USB and Sata didn't arrive here in an overnight express train of easy thought, nor did Bluetooth. Printers need a new approach and i think a one piece none moving 'intelligent ink bar' is needed.
Nick.
Yeah i'd agree with a notebook or desktop with a solid state drive, definitely. Vista is also 100% fine by me and considering i think more Brand Name computers of today are much more reliable, which i know too well than PC's of the 1990's. I'm interested in using the USB more in terms of storing 'a program' such as Microsoft Office on a USB key instead of a CD or DVD. I would like to see the day when all programs such as Vista are on USB or SD card. SD and USB therfore i think play a vital role well into the future of computing. I would like to see computers with a more photo related program that can pin-point the actual print out size of a screen to printer related photo, with a new type of one screen tape measure or ruler that the 'user' can place with finger or cursor over the photo and if the ruler gives a 1" 1/8th of an inch size on a photo display then that's what the print out will definitely be. So a new sleek designed on screen moveable ruler within a future MS Office program. Just like having a drawing board and i think this could help architects more as well. Maybe an old fashioned idea, but i think a good one.
I like to see all computers with 2GB of Ram, even though 1GB is fine, 2GB is. We notice how well a computer is when we start using Large file sized JPegs and graphics. So power should be available to cheap PC's / Notebooks as well and what's the excuse manufacturers? No need for 512mb Ram anymore.
I'd like to see an ultra quiet PC/Notebook. More of a PC desktop related issue. Maybe water cooled CPU's are more the way forward as i read an article on the Intel site regarding this.
Sata cables aren't an issue - as they're already here! Good. Very alike HDMI ! Brilliant. They go hand in hand.
I'd like to see when installing an OS such as Vista 'a one button install' so to speak. I think the user shouldn't have to format or partition a computer when installing an OS, even though the program such as Vista almost does this for you anyway in an easy way. I don't know as i've never installed Vista, but have installed Apple Jaguar and Windows XP (XP wasn't nice at all to install and looked ugly in it's on screen install. Jaguar was really more pleasant, so i hope and think Vista is the same. The OS program should auto, partition the PC for you with no onscreen instruction installation at all and XP or Vista shouldn't really have any need in 'the Future of computing' which is maybe here - for any computer to need anything called partition. I think the word partition, should be a thing of the past and looked into more, if this hasn't already been done so. I think it nonsense this partioning a PC hard drive space into 2 or 3 sectors or whatever. This to me is what an 'open' computer means. No need for any trap doors or different rooms, Everything regarding a PC should be contained within 1 room so to speak. And if not then the answers should be worked on, which i think computing is more or less at now.
LCD Clear Brightview monitors are already here, which is good. But maybe computers of the future will project a moveable display which beams out of a keyboard or desktop or 'laptop keypad', onto a blank wall surface or wooden house interior wall. Therefore no need for a monitor at all.
I think the computer on/off switch should be replaced with a less likely to repair ! scan or voice activated device. (Which is where computers are already at now) A finger scan or a unique barcode scan on/off device i'd consider maybe more likely to be 100% accurate than a voice activated switch on/off way of computing? Therefore why does a PC need an On/Off button anymore.
thanks.
i would like a laptop with a large HDD, some 2 or 3 GB of RAM, a large-ish screen, and some great software for Mr. Average Kid, and keys that are well posistioned! i cant stand keyboard with keys that are so close together!
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As per comment 27 plus:
Optional Linux base but with already integrated wifi network and other 'difficult' capabilities for Linux
gabriel.torres we will see, but in my Dream Notebook proposition I have some solution to make notebooks more individual.