If you want a PC or a Notebook who you can use for more than 3yers you need to invest money in the System. If you get the basic components for the System, by a year you'll feel that the system is a piece of crap. But if you configure the System with expensive components you will not feel the necessity to upgrade the System in less than 3years.
Again, i'd like to see this and I'm sure companies could do this. But, sadly companies like money, so they won't agree to this and will just keep updating their computers but not to the full extent they are capable of.
I think it is possible with current technology, but like anything it would be larger at first until more research was done. Each component could have its own bay on rails. You could probably do it on a large notebook (20 pounds+, 19" screen).
It's a nice thought, but new tech comes out every day in this biz and each one will alter or have a new interface or BUS or whatever. To stick to one thing and make it work in the future with ever increasing requirements on the system, this just isn't possible. Things evolve quickly and most are not backwards compatible for a reason. Tho, it would be nice.
Well, its called getting a 3k computer now and reloading the OS every 6 months. That computer would last 5-8 years if you are careful and not physically damage it. Gettign a quad core 2.5 wit h4gb of ram and a 9 series Nvidia would last you many years to come. I had an inspiron 8600 1.4 penD 512 of ram and a Nvidia 5500 and it lasted 5 or so years quite nicely. Most people thing they need to upgrade their PC quite often while rather they have to just reinstall the OS every 6 months or so. Making a system with a Solid State Boot Disk and a secondary disk drive for storage would make things last longer since backup would go onto the secondary drive and you could reformat the main SSDD whenever you wished.
It would be neat to have a design where parts were user swappable. But you run into the same problem with desktops where you will eventually need to swap out the mother board. To be able to have a user swappable motherboard would take some serious engineering.
Although dell seems to be doing what it can to idiot proof its desktops, some of the stuff they do is clever other stuff seems more confusing. If you could get some really creative engineers on this you might be able to compartmentalize the parts in such a way that it would be easy to interchange them. Maybe this would create a good secondary market for laptop parts as well and bring the price down through competition.
id love everything to be a card/slot type module - ram, video, storage etc. a laptop as a totally modular box with standardized add-on modules. make the keyboard/screen/trackpad user-replacable and affordable and the actual rig need not be replaced for quite a while.
but - future proofing in that sense would have us walking around with decade-old eyesores - to what extent is a laptop a statement on style/lifestyle?
If you want a PC or a Notebook who you can use for more than 3yers you need to invest money in the System. If you get the basic components for the System, by a year you'll feel that the system is a piece of crap. But if you configure the System with expensive components you will not feel the necessity to upgrade the System in less than 3years.
Again, i'd like to see this and I'm sure companies could do this. But, sadly companies like money, so they won't agree to this and will just keep updating their computers but not to the full extent they are capable of.
I think it is possible with current technology, but like anything it would be larger at first until more research was done. Each component could have its own bay on rails. You could probably do it on a large notebook (20 pounds+, 19" screen).
It's a nice thought, but new tech comes out every day in this biz and each one will alter or have a new interface or BUS or whatever. To stick to one thing and make it work in the future with ever increasing requirements on the system, this just isn't possible. Things evolve quickly and most are not backwards compatible for a reason. Tho, it would be nice.
Well, its called getting a 3k computer now and reloading the OS every 6 months. That computer would last 5-8 years if you are careful and not physically damage it. Gettign a quad core 2.5 wit h4gb of ram and a 9 series Nvidia would last you many years to come. I had an inspiron 8600 1.4 penD 512 of ram and a Nvidia 5500 and it lasted 5 or so years quite nicely. Most people thing they need to upgrade their PC quite often while rather they have to just reinstall the OS every 6 months or so. Making a system with a Solid State Boot Disk and a secondary disk drive for storage would make things last longer since backup would go onto the secondary drive and you could reformat the main SSDD whenever you wished.
It would be neat to have a design where parts were user swappable. But you run into the same problem with desktops where you will eventually need to swap out the mother board. To be able to have a user swappable motherboard would take some serious engineering.
Although dell seems to be doing what it can to idiot proof its desktops, some of the stuff they do is clever other stuff seems more confusing. If you could get some really creative engineers on this you might be able to compartmentalize the parts in such a way that it would be easy to interchange them. Maybe this would create a good secondary market for laptop parts as well and bring the price down through competition.
Nice idea, but I don't see how that would be possible.
Sounds like a good idea but are people really going to want to pay for upgrades when laptop prices keep dropping?
Simulated holographic touchscreens, ASUS!
Build me a futuristic robocop, with an LCD touchscreen suite... Now, that'll make a statement.
Sven, its the same statement that a car makes. Or it soon will be.
id love everything to be a card/slot type module - ram, video, storage etc. a laptop as a totally modular box with standardized add-on modules. make the keyboard/screen/trackpad user-replacable and affordable and the actual rig need not be replaced for quite a while.
but - future proofing in that sense would have us walking around with decade-old eyesores - to what extent is a laptop a statement on style/lifestyle?