Laptops without displays

[AskTJ]

Just thought of this. What if laptops were sold, just as a base? No keyboard, no mouse and no display. Just IO and all the drives inside. There would be a lot more cooling available to the laptop.

 

Like this

 

but it would have better cooling.

 

It would be like a portable laptop workstation, that can be hooked up to a monitor.

 

Probably sounds stupid but had a thought and thought I should've shared it.

 

(smh)

[Streetguru]

1 minute ago, AskTJ said:

 

They already make small form factor PCs like the NUCs or Devil's Canyon Vega thing

[LamoidZombieDog]

2 minutes ago, AskTJ said:

Just thought of this. What if laptops were sold, just as a base? No keyboard, no mouse and no display. Just IO and all the drives inside. There would be a lot more cooling available to the laptop.

 

Like this

 

but it would have better cooling.

 

It would be like a portable laptop workstation, that can be hooked up to a monitor.

 

Probably sounds stupid but had a thought and thought I should've shared it.

 

(smh)

no offense but yes it does sound stupid and is.. if it doesnt have a display its not a laptop, thats what sff PCs are for, laptops are made to be portable, not as a mini pc. if you want that use a sff pc or a mini pc

[Streetguru]

23 minutes ago, LamoidZombieDog said:

no offense but yes it does sound stupid and is.. if it doesnt have a display its not a laptop, thats what sff PCs are for, laptops are made to be portable, not as a mini pc. if you want that use a sff pc or a mini pc

 

25 minutes ago, AskTJ said:

 

He was born too late
 

 

[BlvTed]

As stupid as the base idea sounds, the first thing that comes to mind though is a sort of modular form factor for laptops like that, kind of like the failed attempts at making modular phones. That would allow, I guess, a base to be sold that has the shape and make of a laptop base. Though practicality and price would suffer, as making it modular in of itself would be costly for a manufacturer. Too many models of laptops already exist, so modular wouldn't be able to compete against the notion of "there's a lot of models of laptops out there, there's bound to be one right for you." instead of building a modular one yourself. Concept is still cool though, I'd like to see something like that in the future, as the main problem it would solve is the crappy or non-existent ability to upgrade laptops. 

 

I guess what I'm trying to say is that the original idea sucks, but considering a larger scope of it, it would be pretty cool.

[LamoidZombieDog]

On 6/12/2018 at 3:46 AM, AskTJ said:

Just thought of this. What if laptops were sold, just as a base? No keyboard, no mouse and no display. Just IO and all the drives inside. There would be a lot more cooling available to the laptop.

 

Like this

 

but it would have better cooling.

 

It would be like a portable laptop workstation, that can be hooked up to a monitor.

 

Probably sounds stupid but had a thought and thought I should've shared it.

 

(smh)

then you have a mini pc... thats already a thing

 

[AskTJ]

20 minutes ago, LamoidZombieDog said:

then you have a mini pc... thats already a thing

 

 

Yep, know that now. Don't need you going through my old threads.