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ASUS and Intel Launch Collaborative PC Design Site
Jupix writes "There's an interesting new community by ASUS and Intel called WePC. It enables anyone to post their dream PC including not only function, but form as well. You can draw up your dream and describe it in words, and also fiddle with some predetermined properties. No doubt the two companies are looking for common configurations so they can implement them in future products, but according to the press release, even individual designs may get the two companies' backing."
A relatively sharp-edged rectangular prism, pale cream in color. I think it'll be immensely popular.
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It's an obsession of mine, but I'd buy a new laptop tomorrow if it had exactly the same form factor, build quality and materials of the original T40p with updated internals. It would have a 14.1in SXGA+ led LCD (no widescreens please), 1 in thickness (or less), fast CPU (Core2Duo or higher) and fast video card (that won't fall out after less than a year), decent battery life (4+ h), etc.
Of course it will never happen, so...
I'll settle for that.
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Fail.
This is just another form of corporate laziness. They try to make us seem like we are part of the bigger picture, making a difference, place redundant catch phrase here. They'll let us do the work, then market it for an obscene amount of money.
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I have an old secretarial desk that used to have a typewriter table in it. The mechanism was busted, so it was removed. Now I have a big gaping hole in the pedestal of my desk which houses my computers. I have a desktop style Dell sitting on the floor, and a mid-size tower sitting on top of that. The hole is about 13" wide by just under 19" tall. It is too narrow for two cases to sit side by side, however, a double wide case would fit nicely. What I mean by a double wide case, is one which would have enough space to mount two DVD drives side by side. I'd like to have a machine in which I could mount a half a dozen or so removable drive bays.
The alternative would be a rack mount machine which could be mounted vertically (keeping the DVD drive horizontal).
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Any community/crowd sourcing app should start off with clear terms of use. I don't see them. It looks more like an opportunity for intel/asus to advertise to me.
Personally I am looking for something like the Gigabyte M192 (?) but with a good keyboard and battery life (minimum 5 hours). Current designs are limited by the OS, to a fetish degree. Vista Ultimate? Give me a break.
A notebook should be better than a real notebook, an ideapad in the truest sense, where we can mix text and graphics and reference-able notes easily using the screen and the keyboard, with audio and video. But now it is more about configuration options in the control panel. I would expect to see the "perfect" device based on Android more than what these characters are working on, something that goes back to basics and tries to figure out what we are trying to do and integrates things so that we can rely on the computer as a computing buddy, a means to an end of organizing, computing and sharing rather than a main feature of configuring the computer.
...the new Dell Mini 12
How about putting a 1280x768 or better resolution screen on any netbook running a decent, non-VIA processor?
The HP 2133 is the only one, but it's got that garbage chip in it and apparently also runs too hot to use on your lap.
PLEASE give me an Eee/Wind/Aspire One with a decent resolution!
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so soliciting consumer feedback and doing market research is now a form of corporate laziness?
what is wrong with a PC manufacturer trying to open a dialog with its consumer base? are you afraid that they're going to make a product that you actually like? you don't need to participate or even visit the site if you don't want to. but this gives others the opportunity to influence the direction of two of the biggest companies in the computer industry.
most people contributing to the site probably aren't ever going to have the chance to realize their PC designs on their own, much less bring it to market. so what do they have to lose by giving their ideas to ASUS/Intel? presumably, most of users of this site will be PC consumers who regularly purchase & use ASUS products. by getting users to contribute design ideas, ASUS/Intel can be more in tuned with the needs/wants of their customers. and by helping ASUS design products that better fit their needs, ASUS customers are more likely to be satisfied with their future purchases. it's a win-win situation.
and i don't see what this has to do with products being priced too high. companies will do that regardless of consumer input. and ASUS actually has very competitively priced consumer PCs.
You seem to be taking a hard line stance against this behavior, as if it were purified evil. Ok. Why? What about this behavior do you find to inscrutable?
I honestly don't see anything wrong at all with crowd-sourcing. Especially not when the crowd is so willing to lend its hand.
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My Eee PC is great, but occasionally I'd like more screen real estate and a DVD drive. I have suggested this on the site in question, but I'll repeat it here.
I'd like a clamshell device with the same outer shell as the Eee PC and the same screen as the Eee PC, even the same battery as the Eee PC, but instead of being a computer I'd like it to be a portable DVD player, BUT with a VGA in so that the screen can be used as the second screen for my Eee PC AND with a USB port that lets you connect the DVD drive as an external drive for the Eee PC.
Asus should be able to do this using exactly the same molding as the Eee PC, except for the panel where the keyboard currently is. I reckon it'd look really cool pulling out what looks like two Eee PCs then hooking them up as a pair to make a fairly useful portable workstation. (Frankly, given the frequency with which designs are ripped off by Chinese manufacturers, I'm surprised there isn't already a portable DVD player that looks like an Eee.)
I want something like an Eee Box, but optimized for movies and gaming. We could call it the "We Box".
We Box would be a PC roughly the size of a Mac mini. The front has four USB ports, one SD card slot, and one optical drive. The back has two more USB ports, HDMI, and S-video output. The inside has the best GMA that Intel makes, as well as Bluetooth (or wireless USB) and Wi-Fi. And it should boot to some Linux flavor from an internal SSD, using the recent 5-second boot optimizations for console-style instant on, with an Eee PC style full-screen tabbed start menu. Don't forget to put in easy access to CNR to buy apps and games, and bundle a wireless keyboard, trackball (not mouse), and gamepad for usability from the couch.
Hey! People are clever. Why don't we let them tell us what they like, rather than just pushing the stuff we want to give them.
It's a more humanistic view. I like it. If you don't like it, you don't have to give them your cool ideas. If they actually see what people give them and say "hey, these are neat ideas" and actually implement them, that would be fantastic.
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How about putting a 1280x768 or better resolution screen on any netbook
What operating system would you use with your 720p-class netbook? I thought Microsoft wouldn't sell the OEM a copy of Windows XP unless it is to be installed on a machine whose monitor has no more than 1024 pixels across. Are you talking about Xandros[1] or Windows Vista?
[1] The flavor of Linux used on ASUS Eee PC.
Hey Guys, I have an idea that is a bit of a game changer. It involves netbook with a twist. How do I go about getting some recognition, especially a monetary one.
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According to their terms of use about the "Create your own PC" activity:
[we] may freely use the User Content you submit in the design of a personal computer or netbook with no obligation to provide compensation or reimbursement to you [...] you assign to the [us] all rights, interests and titles you now possess or will possess in the future (especially the right to register patent rights)
Personally I would prefer to put my designs on my website under the GPL. Manufacturers could still get my design and build it, but I would be able to get their modifications back and further improve my design.
Here's an idea for all these manufacturers, how about standard form factor laptops so they can be upgraded easily with a new mobo/cpu deal? Why is it this is completely common on the desktop, where you can just pick a case and go from there and assemble exactly what you want, and then upgrade components as you see fit and want to afford, but they act like it is an affront to civilization to be able to do this with laptops?
Of course they would.
After submitting my design for the Überbook, I had a quick browse through the efforts of the other users.
What I saw in there was Goatse times a thousand—more than my Joo-Jantas could bear.
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(2x) SPARC64 VII 2.4 GHz
(2x) UltraSPARC T2+ 1.2 GHz
(2x) Intel Core 2 QX9775 3.2 GHz
Now add 8GB RAM for each of them. 1080p Graphics for the Intel and similar for the S64 VII
Graphics for the T2+ don't matter so much just throw in something with 2 outputs
Now add a couple of disks for each (SATA 6.0 Gbit/s in a Raid 0 array 1 terabyte each)
Build in at least 10 USB ports for each system and 5 firewire (400 and 800 - each)
Mount half of the above on the front of the case.
Build in an small inch touchscreen with the ability to switch between each system.
Separate similar sized LCD to display stats
Gig ethernet switch built in.
I do not want any 2.4 GHz wireless (802.11*).
I would also like an all band HF/6m/2m/125cm/70cm transceiver in there in its own Faraday cage to keep the nasty rfi out. It only needs to put out a watt on each band to keep the heat down (I can use external amps - they can go in the rack too).
How about this?
A big fraction of users don't need more than that. It's sort of an OLPC for grownups. (The OLPC is cute, but just too tiny for adults, and 3 years behind the technology now.)
Now we have PC Idol. Do not get me started on how American Idol has skewed the ambitions of budding musicians. Imagine a computer company/platform that has shyte hardware, shyte OS, but makes an iMac look like an iMutt. Imagine every non-IT educated consumer running to Walmart to buy them.
Think it can't happen? Imagine a Dick Cheney taking over Microsoft when Bill Gates hangs up his gloves. That's all it would take.
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It already exists, it's called the Xbox 360.
As I understand it, you can't develop XNA games using free software: you need Windows ($300) to run XNA Game Studio, and you need to install XNA Creators Club ($495 for a 5-year subscription) on your Xbox 360. Nor can you port an existing game to XNA without either rewriting pretty much everything in C# or writing the whole thing in Lua and running it in a Lua interpreter written in C#.
S-video??? The '80's called; They want their video back.
What if you want to record a video of your performance in a video game to post to YouTube? I was in the DVD recorder aisles of Wal-Mart, Best Buy, and Target, and I couldn't find a single DVD or hard disk recorder that took component, VGA, DVI, or HDMI input. They could all do component and HDMI output, but not input. And the installed base of CRT SDTVs can't take HDMI, VGA, or even progressive component input.