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Quote from: Mine on January 27, 2015, 06:12:29 PM
Modular was decided to be able to cover as many different options that people ask for. Some want high performance, long battery life, rugged keyboard and a 12" width. Others want the same with a 15" or 17"display, and others only want a multicore ARM SOC and a durable case with rugged keyboard.

Having the mainboard, batteries, display and keyboards as modules allows the end user to  mix and match the features they want now. This also allows them to upgrade or replace these features in the future.

We have to observe the limitation of the computer arhitectures which currently surround us.. I think making a too modular design wouldnt be good..
Simply said i think we should design something which will incorporate the best of today (either x86 or the arm)

What can be made easy to replace: battery, screen, hard disk, ram, cpu?

I fell in love with the way apple made it earlier...
You push a button, and leds shine and show how much battery u got left

Changable LiFePO4 batteries like the ones RC people use (hobbyking.com)
nice small screen (if possible IPS)
NO INTERNAL WIFI (requires you to use like small edimax adapter which sticks like 3milimeter out of usb port)
2x eathernet jacks
alot of usb jacks
swapable internals (ssd, ram)
thinklight would be nice
NO SPEAKERS
audio card ( mic in, line in, headphone out, line out)
if possible a better audio card (with decent dac, and headphone amp) => can help design those
open software and all that good stuff
black colour

Quote from: specing on February 16, 2015, 03:45:07 PM
As per discussion in IRC:

- RGB LED with dimming and colour adjustment (vi a EC/OS), possibly even two in stereo?
- ability to turn it on/off (and possibly adjust intensity/colour) when laptop is "off"
- colour/intensity adjustment based on time of day and/or ambient light sensor readings
- powerful enough that no-one will have to run it at 100% in normal and not totally crazy circumstances

anything else?

I would suggest some cree warm white leds.. cheap and bright

color would be warm white.. because rgb only brings pain to configure
Can have ambient light regulation, but also allow manual change

No speakers please.
For a small daily carrying laptop (work, university, caffe) i dont really need speakers.
Dont forget you cant expect much from small speakers...
And nowdays everyone has some inear headphones around
Also would be awkward if your laptop started playing music in the library :


If u plan to include a  motherboard beeper.
Im against a motherboard speaker aka BEEPER, and would either replace it with a led, or have a dip switch (case switch) to enable/disable the beeps.

I would love these
ton of usbs  
2x ethernet ports 
card reader would be handy
   line in
   mic in
   headphone
   line out
some sata-esata can also come in handy

If you are going the Compatibility route and including the PS2 mouse/kbd connectors i would like to see:
paralel port
serial port
firewire
vintage dialup connector

Quote from: Ryushin on February 01, 2015, 02:59:07 PM
I'd like to see a Thinkpad A31p keyboard.  Dedicated trackpoint with no trackpad.

I have a a31p and i dont see any particular reason why is it so good (perhaps because I didnt try other keyboards )
Also the only thing i dont like on the a31p are arrow keys which are trash (and the arrow part thingie)... Also i would like to remove all media keys it has, and just leave the straight ANSI layout (i have ISO, but i preffer ansi, if it even exists in ansi).. And the shroom, leave the shroom

Personally i dont care what keyboard it will have because this laptop isnt intented for a comfortable long typing sessions..

EDIT: keep the trackbad, because you want people to buy it And disabling trackbad is simple