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NOTEBOOK PC : IDEA

Clickpad
Posted in notebook | October 29, 2008 5pm

A trackpad fused with an iPod clickwheel

Instead of a pair of buttons and a scrollwheel, make the trackpad featureless and buttonless.

You can design it to click in any of the 4 cardinal directions+center, or just the lower two corners to simulate left and right buttons, or 4 cardinal+4 corner+center for a total of 9 click areas.

This allows us to maximize the size of the trackpad and increase the utility of the trackpad by increasing button count up to 9

Scolling would be soft-like using two fingers to scroll up/down, left/right, pinch to zoom, etc.

NOTEBOOK PC : IDEA

Dockbook
Posted in notebook | October 29, 2008 5pm

A single "dock" connector on the side of the laptop. The dock connector would allow for passthrough and breakout. This would simplify component, case, and header layout on the system, while increasing flexibility by allowing VGA, DVI, video out, audio out, input, etc, etc. The concept is not unlike existing laptop docks or the iPod/iPhone dock, but would marry the two.

Replace all the ports on a laptop with a dock, while eliminating the redundancy found in many laptops that have both PS2, USB, docks, video, etc. You can even place the antenna for wireless devices in this interface so that you can maximize wifi strength without doing weird ugly things to the case of the laptop.

This would allow a laptop to be much smaller as there would only be a single connector, instead of an area with 6 different connectors.