MY THEME: Notebook PC Netbook PC Gamer PC
You Dream It. ASUS Builds It. Intel Inside®
Where ideas meet innovation. About Intel. About ASUS.
Vote on Submissions
Top 3 features
- Dockable Performance
- Extreme Battery Life
- Portability when you need it, Power when you need it too!
All-Purpose Laptop
Alternative content
Dream PC Description
This would be a notebook and netbook and one. It would have a thin light profile with long battery life, decent processor and memory. It would have a docking system unlike any out there, it would be the same dimensions of the laptop and would have a proprietary connector. The docking system would actually be an extension on the laptop itself with expanded memory, and processing power, and optical drives which would allow the machine to have all the power it needs. When undocked the laptop would be able to used for what most netbooks (and notebooks in that manner are used for) internet, email, processing, and things. This would kill the need for a powerful desktop for games and higher audio/video purposes and give the person what they really wanted, a portable laptop. Like the Lenovo U330, it would have switchable graphics too, the discrete being in the docking station and the integrated in the net/notebook. The netbook would not have an optical drive and only 1 or 2 usb ports, HDMI out port, and headphone and microphone jacks, webcam, card slots and very long battery life. The docking station would have many usb, blu-ray or dual layer dvd burner, along with another processor, more memory, discrete graphics, ethernet, and monitor out for connecting to (multiple) monitors and a tv tuner.Most Recent Submissions:
Da Gamer
February 8, 2010 9pm
Fast, portable, and solar-paneled to stay on forever. In the normal face, the screen is 15.7 inches. In the portable face, it turns in to a pocket sized "phone". The "phone" phase has a 3 in.x3 in. sc...
Most Voted PCs:
- 2 internal PCI-e slots
- 8 GB ram
- dual 8-core processors
- Water-resistant case
- Waterproof sealed keyboard
- Floating laptop shell
Life is sometimes amazing - about three weeks ago I thought of the exact same thing described in the main article - docking stations for laptops with discreet graphics cards.
Then I thought to myself "I wish I could speak to someone who could actually implement this." Then I happened onto the HotHardware link today and here's my idea already posted!
I thought of this when I looked at the Acer Timeline laptops that launched recently. I liked the idea of a slim laptop with a long battery life for mobile use, but I soon realized I would not be able to play anything resembling 3D games on it. The graphics card would also probably not allow the use of an additional high resolution screen.
To add a couple of thoughts of my own:
1. This docking station idea can serve to increase the upgradeability of laptops. You no longer need to buy laptop + graphics card simultaneously, but can upgrade at will.
2. You will need a seperate power supply for the docking station if you're going to power a discreet graphics card. This could possibly also power your laptop while docked.
3. Whilst the motherboard design of the laptop will be interesting, the CPU on the laptop will probably be the limiting factor on the whole setup. In essence you want a powerful chip when the laptop is docked, but a low-wattage chip when it is running on batteries. There are obviously some chips more suited to these requirements, but perhaps things like underclocking and overclocking can play a role here. The docking station could perhaps be designed to better cool the laptop, thereby improving the headroom for overclocking.
Dude! I love this idea! It would be so handy! The Powerful dock and then a netbook... excellent idea!
You could make it so when you buy the computer you can customize the dock to suit your needs...E.G gaming in my case... And also be able to easily upgrade the dock and then on a side note you could possibally use the dock as a PC by its self... But that maybe pushing it O.o
High Cuality,
You Know what they do to guys us in Prison
Hmm, this is a REALL good idea! I really like the idea where the docking station would be as big as the laptop, that's a really good idea! and the docking station would have extra processors, memory etc is a really good idea!