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NOTEBOOK PC : DREAM

The "Look Ma! No Wires!" Port-less Notebook.
Posted in notebook | December 15, 2008 12pm

My new idea for a notebook computer is one that is completely devoid of wires, that includes the power cable.

The computer will be completely sealed with no moving parts (SSD applies here), that means no ports (in the traditional sense). Nor will there be a traditional keyboard. A backlit sensor array behind a glass panel will handle the keyboard/mouse functions.

Wireless connectivity, the computer will have no physical ports. All connections will be over a Wireless USB hub, wireless networking and/or bluetooth. (It should probably come with an external hard drive that the computer will recognize automatically over a wireless network or even better an external hard drive that can be accessed over the internet from some sort of encrypted connection). So the connectivity will still be there and your notebook will automatically connect to these devices when in range.

This makes for a much more slim and sleek design, with no possibility of port clogging from dust, etc.

No moving parts means less possibility for breakage and longer battery life.

Power will be provided by a "power pad" that the laptop will sit on top of and charge from. A technology pioneered by non-other than Nikola Tesla.

(Coffee shops could start putting in a power pad counter-top so that laptop users can charge while sipping beverages, or otherwise)

GAMER PC : DREAM

The Graphics Slot Laptop
Posted in gamer | December 1, 2008 2pm

This computer is a no holds barred performance tour de force. Let's face it, gamers simply want performance, weight (and battery power)be damned. Performance costs heat and cooling costs weight. My gamer laptop design is based on two ideas, huge cooling and desktop upgrade-ability.

The upgrade-ability will address most notebooks' greatest weakness and that is the graphics card. Graphics acceleration technology moves at an incredible rate and the in-ability to replace the graphics is a sore point that holds back some very capable laptop cpus.

My answer is introducing the very familiar pci-express x16 slot to the notebook arena, which has been the standard since the days of the 6-series Nvidia cards and continues as the way for performance graphics cards. A dedicated bay in a clamshell style notebook that is the size of a standard 10.5" videocard with a room for a dual slot exhaust style cooler (venting grate on the bottom for intake). The additional of a PCI-Express 6-pin power connector, you would be able to accommodate not all but many of today's latest card designs. (Diagram on left illustrates my idea, blue is the graphics card, yellow is pci-e slot, purple is pci-e 6pin power, red is dvi-dvi connection to monitor, green is mainboard) [I love how much of a terrible artist I am].

Cooling will need to be a factor with the high end parts that gamers demand. The cpu will be cooled by a dedicated set of heatpipes that lead to a heatsink in the rear of the laptop that resides in betwixt the hinges of the laptop where as the ram and northbridge share a heatsink in the front right of the laptop. Because of the exceedingly large nature of the heatsink design, it would be best to mount the hard drive and dvd-rom drive in the monitor enclosure. It would add to the thickness of the lid, but in a laptop that probably approaches 3-4 inches thick, it shouldn't be an issue. Rear facing legs would give added stability to the monitor.