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Meet the Laptop of 2015
cweditor writes "Like concept cars at auto shows, the computer industry designs 'concept notebooks' to imagine the machines of the future. The 'concepts' may not come to market as-is, but it's likely some of their ideas, components and features will. Take a look at systems you might be using in 7 years. In one, a touch-sensitive screen acts as the system's keyboard and mouse, allowing you to slide your finger across the screen to immediately shut off the display and keep what you're working on confidential. Their associated image gallery includes a prototype for a dual-screen laptop."
I have a "concept model" of a dual screen laptop. It fits in my hand and can play Mario Bros.
Given those concept graphics none of those will be my laptop of the future. I won't be using anything with a 'start' button.
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My fingers land right on the middle of the keys; there's no fumbling around the edges until I get good purchase on the middle and finally press it. I'd have no problem with no tactile feedback, though it would be really hard to type without looking at the screen.
Also come on, really? We have an article on the front page about how stupid futurism is and then a futurist article. Trying to appeal to everyone I see. Anyway it's not like all of that has interest to anybody except the PC World grandpa crowd; I'm far more interested in seeing those number of cores go up up up and being able to run xbox 360 games (oh haha I remember that old thing; sent it in 15 times for repairs before microsoft's games division closed) on my entry-level cell phone.
Is it just me that hates the idea of a touch screen keyboard? I like feeling keys bounce back; it's not healthy for your fingers to not have some cushioning at the very least.
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"2TB hard disk drive, which should be plenty of room for even the biggest data hog, the experts speculated."
Who in this day and age would say 'that should be plenty' man i'm looking at having a few hundred bluray-sucessor movies i'm sure that'll be over 2TB. Silly people
Seriously, the people who came up with this stuff are completely unimaginative and idiotic. Tactile feedback for typing is almost a necessity given you *don't f-ing look at the keyboard while typing*!! The only "future laptop" with some actual touch feedback they showed was the oily blob, which I don't even know how to approach. If I want to replace my laptop with an oily blob, I'll gain 200 pounds and sit on the table myself.
The one that turns into a book viewer if you turn it 90 degrees is a total joke. Seriously, take your laptop right now, turn it 90 degrees so that the break between the two "halves" is vertical, and tell me that's a comfortable way to handle reading material. Unless it's laying flat on the table (in which case it better be quite small) it's completely unmanageable.
The one they showed slung over the steering wheel of a car, that's just bad. BAD BAD BAD! Hey guys, here's a piece of crap with a touch-screen keyboard you have to stare at in order to use that you can hang right on your steering wheel! And then what, drive and type? That looks like the most uncomfortable thing ever even if you're parked.
I give all these "laptops of the future" an EPIC FAIL out of 10.
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Type a lengthy text message without looking at the phone's keyboard. Quickly. ^_^ I mean, there's a reason there's a bump on the 'F' and 'J' keys on the keyboard I'm using at the moment. A good reason.
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It is funny the Technology Croud who is working with one of the fastes areas of change are often the most resistant to it.
I guess I see your point... in a world where proper capitalization, spelling, and grammar are no longer relevant, being able to hit the right key at the right time is fairly moot.
- Despite popular opinion, I am not perfect.
Cario, I think # 4 in the image gallery...
If you thought idiots talking on cell phones while driving were dangerous, wait until you get next to some jerk using the convenient steering wheel mount on the Cario laptop.
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Ranting about how one can't deal with a touchscreen... no tactile feedback blah blah blah...
Yet this same crowd loves the iPhone...
Ironic?
Because the usage scenarios for an iPhone and a laptop are identical, right?
Thankfully we don't have the computers today they predicted we'd have 5 years ago.
My biggest issue with voice activation technology is not the recognition. I have a voice activated mobile phone that understands my commands quite readily. I work in an office with two other people in close proximity; a trio of voice activated computers would be a nightmare of mis-heard or mis-interpreted commands. Though it will doubtless undergo many changes in years to come, the keyboard will remain the primary input method for a very long time to come, especially when there are people that can type faster than they can talk, particularly when it comes to non-natural terms and phrases that are used in many applications such as programming.
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All of these alternate input ideas are bottom line stupid. You can type stuff faster into a computer than you could speak it. If voice recognition was 100%, then the computer would need to understand what you are saying.