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I want boatloads of bloatware!
Posted in notebook | December 6, 2008 5pm

In addition to boatloads of bloatware, I would like a notebook with decent x86 and x64 drivers for every bit of hardware in the thing. With compatibility for every widely distributed version of Windows. Plus the same goes for a few common Linux distributions, perhaps ubuntu and fedora core (do a poll and pick the top 3-4 I suppose). These drivers, must be garbage free. They should not install any services, applications or processes (particularly anything which constantly tries to update versions of things). They should be efficient, enablers of hardware based technologies.

The point of this request is: since a bloatware free notebook seems a pipedream. I am, and, as far as I can see, will forever, be forced, by the unethical trade in useless software; to format my new notebook first thing after removing the packaging. I want the vendor who sells me a notebook to receive as much revenue as they possibly can by including as much rubbish software as they are able to source from people willing to pay them, to assault their own end users, with software so vile that it's creators feel compelled to compensate the public for it's existence. I want the company which has made this notebook, to pass on the magin created by the additional revenue to me, the customer/victim.

Plus I would like seperate (if you must) installation media without any bloatware and only the stripped out drivers mentioned earlier. You may include a scripting installation app to automate the installation of the drivers with restarts etc. As long as it is a standalone executable that installs nothing but the aforementioned drivers.

I would also appreciate it if my notebook vendor of choice stopped wasting money creating custom software for no particular reason. I would like the cost savings of this passed on to me too.

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no trackpad!
Posted in notebook | November 30, 2008 7pm

On a corporate notebook replacing a desktop or workstation, remove the trackpad and pointer-stick devices. An average real mouse is many times the superior of even the finest trackpad device. The difference in productivity between using either input device is often vast. In the corporate environment, users stick with the inefficient trackpad, simply because the option is available. The trackpad also must be disabled in order to use the notebook keyboard as a productivity keboard effectively and comfortably. The cost, in terms of time and productivity due to slow\inacurate pointing and clicks from a trackpad are massive. Of course a business traveller or high mobility user will need a trackpad but in a number of business cases the product would actually be improved by the removal of a device which will always be sub-standard compared to a decent mouse\mousepad combination. You don't see professional gamers using their trackpads at tournaments?

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Laptop riser feet
Posted in notebook | November 30, 2008 8am

Like a desktop keyboard can be raised up a little from the suface is on by flicking out little feet on each side of the keyboards, I would like these feet on my notebook. I am all in favour of drawing air into the notebook from beneath it and exhausting it out the side and away from the notebook, but if placing the back of my notebook on a book and raising the bottom off the desk by 1.5 cm impoves the cooling efficiency of my notebook by 10% then just rather build it into the notebook!. Make it sturdy and robust while you are about it. That sort of intelligent functional design would please me greatly. This could improve device MTBF due to improved cooling efficiency while you are at it.

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Larger, Slower speed fans
Posted in notebook | November 29, 2008 3pm

I would like to have a notebook with cooling fans which are larger in size and lower in rotaional speed. Augment this with more robust heatsinks, using more aluminium. Do I really have to tollerate a painful continuous whine in exchange for the privalege of portablity? See Antec historically, their examples are good.