The concept is noble. Yes guys you can never in all honesty fully make a PC future proof. But you can make it last longer than it should. Any classic design will illustrate this. While everyone is trying to go hybrd for fuel economy, we are still taken aback by something like a Lamborghini Countach or a Lotus Esprit, or a Porsche 911 Turbo. "Sleek, classic and timeless" these are the words we use to describe products designed to be ahead of their time. It's no different in electronics. Just make something that will entice 3rd party and open source support. I beg to disagree, the laptop can become "future-resilient" if not future-proof... just think out of the box and don't confine yourselves to that small form factor that doesn't make room for upgrades, expansions or accessories.
Unfortunately, nothing is future proof. The car you drive now is not future proof. The clothes you wear now may not be future proof (even though you do hope they are). Laptop is definitely not future proof.
First of all, an upgrade in the laptop means an upgrade on the hardware. While hardwares do get cheaper while have better performance over time, they're still costly to manufacture. So that simply rules out free upgrade.
With each improvement in technology also means an overhaul on the standard. AGP slot, for instance, was a standard 5 years ago. Now its almost impossible to find a board sporting an AGP slot. Therefore in order to upgrade a laptop, one needs to overhaul the entire interior hardwares, including boards, CPU, memory, chipsets....etc. Therefore that also rules out "cheap" upgrades.
To be honest, laptops are much more affordable compared to several years ago. You can get a everyday laptop for as low as $300USD, courtesy of ASUS's EEE-PC. If not satisfied, you can still pay about $200~250USD more for a full-blooded notebook. A $500 investment for two years is not exactly "expensive".
why not make it so that things like memory, SSD, and cpu are modular enough to keep? so if a new form factor comes out, i could keep my old cpu, SSD, and ram, and whatever else. (for example if i don't care about speed, just the new webcam/whatever.) the old laptop's plastic case could be recycled, or reused and sold with new memory/CPU for less.
Unfortunatly this is possible but wont ever happen, I agree upgrading heavily or buying new ever 2-5 years is expensive but for $150 manufacturers will end up in debt if they release the latest tech and put in the labour to upgrade each laptop. Unfortuneatly there is no such thing as a future proof PC, even with your idea tech will come to a point where something is slightly different to the current case or in some cases to ahead to cope with the other tech in your PC/laptop therby making it near pointless to send it in if the service were available because it would be too costly. Computers will always be upgradable including laptops but only to a point where it becomes to far outdated for extra money, you will have spent the same amount on upgrades as a current mid-end new mahcine
an idea worth pursuing if firms like ASUS and Intel seek to consider the impact of their products on the environment
Yeah, what you want is a Sandbender. As seen in Idoru. http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=80
Definately, I still have my "Top-of-the-line" toshiba with 1/2 gig of ram
http://www.wepc.com/vote/view/dream/5633/ChameleonPC
The concept is noble. Yes guys you can never in all honesty fully make a PC future proof. But you can make it last longer than it should. Any classic design will illustrate this. While everyone is trying to go hybrd for fuel economy, we are still taken aback by something like a Lamborghini Countach or a Lotus Esprit, or a Porsche 911 Turbo. "Sleek, classic and timeless" these are the words we use to describe products designed to be ahead of their time. It's no different in electronics. Just make something that will entice 3rd party and open source support. I beg to disagree, the laptop can become "future-resilient" if not future-proof... just think out of the box and don't confine yourselves to that small form factor that doesn't make room for upgrades, expansions or accessories.
Unfortunately, nothing is future proof. The car you drive now is not future proof. The clothes you wear now may not be future proof (even though you do hope they are). Laptop is definitely not future proof.
First of all, an upgrade in the laptop means an upgrade on the hardware. While hardwares do get cheaper while have better performance over time, they're still costly to manufacture. So that simply rules out free upgrade.
With each improvement in technology also means an overhaul on the standard. AGP slot, for instance, was a standard 5 years ago. Now its almost impossible to find a board sporting an AGP slot. Therefore in order to upgrade a laptop, one needs to overhaul the entire interior hardwares, including boards, CPU, memory, chipsets....etc. Therefore that also rules out "cheap" upgrades.
To be honest, laptops are much more affordable compared to several years ago. You can get a everyday laptop for as low as $300USD, courtesy of ASUS's EEE-PC. If not satisfied, you can still pay about $200~250USD more for a full-blooded notebook. A $500 investment for two years is not exactly "expensive".
good idea!
why not make it so that things like memory, SSD, and cpu are modular enough to keep? so if a new form factor comes out, i could keep my old cpu, SSD, and ram, and whatever else. (for example if i don't care about speed, just the new webcam/whatever.) the old laptop's plastic case could be recycled, or reused and sold with new memory/CPU for less.
Unfortunatly this is possible but wont ever happen, I agree upgrading heavily or buying new ever 2-5 years is expensive but for $150 manufacturers will end up in debt if they release the latest tech and put in the labour to upgrade each laptop. Unfortuneatly there is no such thing as a future proof PC, even with your idea tech will come to a point where something is slightly different to the current case or in some cases to ahead to cope with the other tech in your PC/laptop therby making it near pointless to send it in if the service were available because it would be too costly. Computers will always be upgradable including laptops but only to a point where it becomes to far outdated for extra money, you will have spent the same amount on upgrades as a current mid-end new mahcine
that is impossible. unless you mean its possible to upgrade. technology changes all the time. nothing is ever going to be future proof.