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Have you ever had your eye on a new notebook, coveting it for its sleek lines, seemingly limitless power and impressive capabilities, only to find out later that the machine had a glaring omission on what you feel is a critical component or feature? After all, how could they have left out that USB coffee warmer? Don’t design engineers need caffeine too? We feel your pain. Or maybe you’ve seen a notebook that has just about anything you could ever dream of wanting but it’s so dang ugly you wouldn’t get caught using it as a doorstop wedge, much less take it to a business meeting. Let’s face it, when it comes to technology, beauty isn’t a simple light switch away.
The good folks at Asus have an idea on how they can help – a wonderfully powerful, simply killer idea actually and we’re here to help them spread the word about it a bit. What would you say if you, along with a few hundred (maybe a few thousand) of your closest friends, could help design a totally new notebook? You’d probably jump at the chance to design what you feel is the perfect machine, right?
That’s exactly what we’re going to get you in on, with Asus and their “crowd-sourced” notebook challenge! This week, to start the ball rolling, we’d like you to tell us your high-level important design requirements. If you were building the most amazingly capable, stylish and powerful notebook, what would be your top 5 most important features? Do you need processor power, battery life and manageable light weight? Or is a super crisp LCD and integrated Blu-ray player important? You’re the boss here, so let fly with your demands and we’ll start cracking the whip on the design team. Stay tuned for follow-up requests for your feedback in many other specific areas as well. Help Asus build a true crowd-sourced notebook with your design requirements in mind!
Hi this is Moshe
Pleas look at my post.
Comments will be appreciated.
http://www.wepc.com/vote/view/dream/7362/William_Gibson_Cyberspace_Machine
1. Durability
2. OS choice - why can't you give users other options?
3. At least one year warranty WITH good customer support that can solve all basic hardware AND pre-installed software issues. If you can't debug the software you sell, then DON'T LOAD IT ON THE MACHINE.
4. both Firewire 800 and USB
5. axe HDMI and analog video outputs. Stick with the ones that work - DVI or DisplayPort only.
biggest beef for me are 1. size 2. weight and 3. the omission of a firewire port for capturing from my camcorder.
I dont want or need a huge screen 10" is quite big enough as long as it does a decent resolution - BARE MINIMUM is 768 x 1024 but more would be even nicer. Also I don't want a heavy weight - I want to be able to put the machine in my bag without noticing it.
I agree with Mobilesalesman, when can we finally have a true pocket laptop to purchase?
1: I wanna see a PC that would have a touchscreen keyboard/mouse track pad. This would take up the usual section reserved for the keyboard. All of the input methods could be customized on this screen. Qwerty keyboard, touchpad, drawing pad, letter recognition, hotkeys: volume, brightness, etc.
2: New standards to push technology forward. EX. Get rid of anything old, b/g wireless? only sell n, until something new is made. demand will push the price down.
3: A SSD configured in raid; 2x64GB, 4x64GB, 8x16GB? (cost effective) but fast, and expandable. Until large SSD capacities becomes affordable, a slot loading hard drive option for higher storage should be available.
4: Magnetic power cord should be standard on all notebooks.
5: MOST IMPORTANT: Always include a no OS option. Or, sell all options on all notebooks. Ability to support any OS (mac, linux, windows)
Note: Quality construction materials would be sweet: aluminum or carbon fiber would be nice, little if no plastics.
The problem with computers to me is that now that we are more mobile many of us just want a simple laptop in your pocket but it must have a touch type keyboard and run full windows. Laptops sell over 113 million units a year and are clearly the desired form factor due to the touch type keyboard. Yet for pocket size there has yet to be a jacket size version. Remmber the old handhelds like the Psion and Jornada? They sold 2.3 million a year with an OS not perfected. Imagine if you create a modern version of either of those type of form factors and enable it to run full windows; that would sell like hot cakes to most business users. That is what I want!
Generally, I would like notebooks to have external CD drives - I don't use it often, and there will be some space saved.
As other say, a DVD, touchscreen, 6 - hr battery life, and cheap. Most people don't use a laptop as their main PC, just whilst they're out and about.
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why the netbook do not have a mini CD or mini DVD disk (like DVD in camcorder
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