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Geek Culture / A good idea(maybe)...

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Ilya
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Posted: 20th Nov 2004 05:48
Would you buy something that cost about $100 and was a laptop with nothing inside, but it directs input and recives output from your PC wirelessly. It would support a mouse, a keyboard, and a monitor. You must put little redirect thingys that direct input/output from/to the laptop-like thing? They're all connected to each other using a wire and the wire leads to a big, red button on your desk, in a steel case and 100%x30%x100% on XYZ, which triggers weither you're using the laptop-like object or not.

Pros:

Will be cheaper than a laptop.
Lighter than one.
No need to copy files and settings.

Cons:

Might be slow... and might not. Depends on how it's designed.
Your PC has to be on before you can use it, and you have to push the red button(once if you're always going to be using it).
Can't be too far away from your PC.

The $100 is a prediction, but there's LCD screens on ebay for $80, so the price might be $150. I could add sound, but I don't see why it's necesary considering you have PC speakers.

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bitJericho
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Posted: 20th Nov 2004 06:05
that's what they call a "terminal" machine

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indi
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Posted: 20th Nov 2004 06:12
I think its an excellent idea if your aiming at creating forum diarrhea.

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Xander
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Posted: 20th Nov 2004 08:56 Edited at: 20th Nov 2004 08:56
Yeah, stop pooing on the forum

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Benjamin
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Posted: 20th Nov 2004 09:24
Thats just mean Indi

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Ilya
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Posted: 21st Nov 2004 09:20
And here's an idea for a browser:
No matter what the resolution, the page is still the same size.
It would save webmasters some trouble.
(Unless that already exists.)

Quote: "I've seen the word programming and I'm not sure what it means. Anybody please explain?"


Quote: "We shouldn't sacrifice the truth to preserve "balance"."
Shadow Robert
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Posted: 21st Nov 2004 09:29
A better idea would be to create a limited Laptop..
there are a number of small Memory/Flash drives which aren't to expensive, as are there a number of CPU/Mobo/Ram solutions capable of being put into small frameworks.

Infact there are a number of them which are pretty widespread now.
A real question isn't what to put together, but who are you aiming at?

Once you know what your market is, THEN you can go about creating something.


Ilya
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Posted: 21st Nov 2004 09:33 Edited at: 21st Nov 2004 09:34
My market for the fist one would be people who stay at home a lot and use their computer a lot.

The second would be for anyone who uses the web.

Although, I probably won't manufacture any of those, I could sell idea 1 to Dell(for example) and 2, give to Mozzila.

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