A laptop with a wired detachable touch screen(oded.us)
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A laptop with a wired detachable touch screen
http://www.oded.us/2012/05/laptop-wired-detachable-touch-screen.html
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I don't like the wired approach. It reminds me of our first VCR as a kid that had a wired remote. lol
I'm sure others are doing it too but I think that Asus has it right with the Transformer line. You have a tablet that is self contained. But you can easily attach the keyboard which then turns it into a laptop. The keyboard has some additional I/O and another battery. I wonder if it would be possible to take that one step further and have additional cpu/gpu power in the keyboard so that as a laptop it is even more powerful.
I'm sure others are doing it too but I think that Asus has it right with the Transformer line. You have a tablet that is self contained. But you can easily attach the keyboard which then turns it into a laptop. The keyboard has some additional I/O and another battery. I wonder if it would be possible to take that one step further and have additional cpu/gpu power in the keyboard so that as a laptop it is even more powerful.
>"take that one step further and have additional cpu/gpu power in the keyboard"
that's an even better idea, but OS wise will probably cause problems. The original idea is simple enough to implement 5 years ago, I can actually take my old x61t and probably hack it myself...
that's an even better idea, but OS wise will probably cause problems. The original idea is simple enough to implement 5 years ago, I can actually take my old x61t and probably hack it myself...
However, one of the great benefits of tablets is how easy they are to start working on: with my iPad, if it's in my briefcase and I have to add a calendar item, I can pick it up, start it, add a calendar item, and put it back in mere seconds.
Having it attached to a keyboard and having to mess with the wire would slow this process down a bit, I would think. Also, I can't pick up the whole package and run to a meeting quite as easily.