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Concept PC 2001

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the not-coming-soon-anywhere dept.

Rami Kassab writes: "Check out this sweet PC developed by HP. It runs on the Intel P4 and features a wireless keyboard, mouse, even a wireless 18" flat screen LCD monitor. The wireless mouse and keyboard run over RF. All of the components are connected to eachother via Bluetooth technology. Included with this PC is USB 2.0 and an ATI 7500 AGP card." The screen looks a little strange, but I always love seeing interesting new designs for these boxes since I spend so much time in front of one.

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  1. Non-Wireless Monitor? by bwindle2 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Maybe its just me, but I didn't see anything about a wireless monitor..."DVI Interface LCD monitor" "and an 18" flat screen LCD monitor to top things off".

  2. Not a wireless LCD by sportal · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The article says nothing about this being a wireless monitor. That would be quite a task though, bet that doesn't run across 802.11b or Bluetooth.

  3. Prettier outside, same junk inside by Ars-Fartsica · · Score: 4, Interesting
    How about PCs that are actually simple to upgrade or alter if we see fit? A few years back PC vendors tried removeable components, but now these designs are relegated to server-class systems (i.e. hot swappable RAID drives).

    Still to this day, upgrading a hard drive or a graphics card is an unnecesarily obfuscated process, requiring the PC guts to be cracked open and laid out on the kitchen table.

    Of course easily upgradeable components would cut into PC sales, so its probably hopeless.

  4. Buy a G4 tower then :P by 2nd+Post! · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Seriously, if you're advocating simple to upgrade PCs.

    Pull a latch and the side of the G4 pops open. Drives sit on the bottom and are connected to a ribbon cable. CPU sits on an easily upgradable daughtercard (or maybe it's in a ZIF socket by now, I own a Titanium Laptop), ram is easily accessable, and all the PCI slots are trivially available because the motherboard lies on the hinged door.

    The problem? Most PC buyers don't want to *pay* for the ability to easily tinker with their PC, instead placing higher value on performance and price, leaving design innovation, power consumption, and noise pollution as casualties of their budgets.

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    GPL Deconstructed
  5. Wireless Power by Baldrson · · Score: 3, Interesting
    wireless keyboard, mouse, even a wireless 18" flat screen LCD monitor. The wireless mouse and keyboard run over RF."

    So where's the wireless power?

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    Seastead this.