Portless Laptops are Coming! Run Away! or are they going to be awesome?

[Vishera]

10 minutes ago, Forbidden Wafer said:

Wow, I haven't seen one of these in a long while.

That's a proof that portless laptops suck,and that laptops packed with IO reign supreme.

No one likes to carry around dongles and adapters.

[Forbidden Wafer]

4 hours ago, Vishera said:

That's a proof that portless laptops suck,and that laptops packed with IO reign supreme.

No one likes to carry around dongles and adapters.

Nowadays, I'm happy with 2xUSB-C, 2xUSB-A, HDMI, 3.5mm headphone jack and microSD slot.
Ethernet and VGA aren't that necessary for me, so using the USB-C dongle doesn't bother me as much.
I really want Framework to succeed. Really liked the concept, which isn't that dissimilar to these extension cards.

[Kisai]

5 hours ago, Vishera said:

That's a proof that portless laptops suck,and that laptops packed with IO reign supreme.

No one likes to carry around dongles and adapters.

Donglehell.

 

It's bad enough on mobile phones, it's only worse when a device has no ports and can not justify having no ports unlike a watch.

 

Honestly, damn near every "thin and light" laptop requires a dock to do anything. Everyone uses a mouse and requires wired ethernet unless the office has been explicitly designed for WiFi everywhere, and even then you're going to get 1Gbit over wired, while you might get 1mbits in the crappiest parts of the office over wifi. 

 

At the office, 100% of employees:

1. Use a dock

2. Connect to two monitors

3. Use a keyboard and mouse, with the mouse plugged into the laptop itself

 

The only time people use WiFi at the office is when they are in the conference rooms.

 

[CerealExperimentsLain]

Does anyone else keep seeing this thread title and reading it as 'Pointless laptops are coming' or is it just me?

[Bananasplit_00]

I mean how often do I actually use the like.. Three ports on my surface? Its not often.

 

But I would definitely not buy this.

 

Looks like they are going for a qi charger, and that's it for antennas sooooo are they going to try and get several USB ports and TB over that too?... Seems stupid

[Quackers101]

31 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

Looks like they are going for a qi charger, and that's it for antennas sooooo are they going to try and get several USB ports and TB over that too?... Seems stupid

one driver issue, and all ports disabled

[Fnige]

On 2/2/2022 at 2:09 PM, GhostRoadieBL said:

i7-1280P w/ Iris Xe graphics

aka: 1280x2276

[GhostRoadieBL]

On 2/5/2022 at 6:41 AM, Bananasplit_00 said:

Looks like they are going for a qi charger, and that's it for antennas sooooo are they going to try and get several USB ports and TB over that too?

I think it's standard Qi charging but either pin-pad connection (maybe in the logo) or something to do with NFC or wifi connected ports which I've never seen but should be possible within the wifi6 universe (obviously not TB). Latency would be less of a problem with the antennas basically touching but it's probably tech the big names would kill for.

Should be looking out for iNinjas.

[mr moose]

So there are lots and lots of debates and arguments about dongles, lack of portability, what to do with corded peripherals etc.  But no one seems to have hit on the most important problem.  Are we not supposed to be developing tech that is more power efficient and uses less materials to manufacture?  IF so then wireless charging uses more copper and is less efficient that a wire,  plus a box like dongle for everything else requires more materials than putting the ports directly onto the motherboard. 

 

It's like a step backwards for the sake of what? I can't even think of an advantage.

[Fnige]

13 hours ago, mr moose said:

It's like a step backwards for the sake of what? I can't even think of an advantage.

Convenience^TM

[Quackers101]

3 minutes ago, FnigePython said:

Convenience^TM

*puts wireless charging in the walls, floor and desks*

also

*puts wireless ports inside my desk that holds over 9000 ports running on the 6ghz*

[Ordis]

I use the usb type a and rj45 ports on my laptop frequently but for thin laptops thunderbolt is fine.

[mr moose]

On 2/8/2022 at 10:06 AM, FnigePython said:

Convenience^TM

 Whichever company registered that trademark has an awesome PR department.  

[Bananasplit_00]

On 2/7/2022 at 4:05 AM, GhostRoadieBL said:

I think it's standard Qi charging but either pin-pad connection (maybe in the logo) or something to do with NFC or wifi connected ports which I've never seen but should be possible within the wifi6 universe (obviously not TB). Latency would be less of a problem with the antennas basically touching but it's probably tech the big names would kill for.

Should be looking out for iNinjas.

... But if you already have pin-pad contacts... Why waste a load of power doing wireless charging...

 

NFC is super not built for speed I'm fairly sure. WiFi is probably going to work shit at that distance too if I had to guess

[whm1974]

Don't buy a Portless Laptop. RUN!!!

[Elijah Kamski]

Apple: Notch

This computer: Attaches the entire conputer on the back of the screen.

 

Its dumb and it looks dumb, most importantly it looks dumb.

[Elijah Kamski]

On 2/7/2022 at 8:37 PM, mr moose said:

So there are lots and lots of debates and arguments about dongles, lack of portability, what to do with corded peripherals etc.  But no one seems to have hit on the most important problem.  Are we not supposed to be developing tech that is more power efficient and uses less materials to manufacture?  IF so then wireless charging uses more copper and is less efficient that a wire,  plus a box like dongle for everything else requires more materials than putting the ports directly onto the motherboard. 

 

It's like a step backwards for the sake of what? I can't even think of an advantage.

Because less cables looks good I guess.

 

Either way, more USB please, I always run out XD