D-Roll Laptop Concept: Inspirational

Laptops of the future have arrived carrying shapes and designs as were never conceived before. No longer is it necessary for laptops to carry the traditional flat and slightly rectangular shape. In some time, it would be passé and almost unfashionable to be seen carrying a laptop of such an ancient design.

Though many cool designs have been offered for the laptops of the future, most are either unrealistic or two far away in terms of production. Some have awesome designs but fall flat when it comes to practicality. The D-Roll laptop concept wins on all accounts. Designed by Hao Hua, the D-Roll or Digital Roll laptop is intended to be the next generation laptop design and completely deviates from the traditional look of today’s laptops. Designed like an artist’s scroll, the D-Roll laptop has an OLED screen which can be rolled up and includes straps at the side for easy portability. The straps also work as places for USB plug-ins. The D-Roll laptop comes with a detachable webcam which can be worn on the body. The keyboard slides out and the laptop includes a mouse as well.

The D-Roll laptop may be a concept currently but the design is inspiring and would definitely catch the eyes of other designers wishing to create a better looking and practical laptop. If this hits the market, it would be swept off the shelves in no time

Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Black Netbook - Customizable

What a bargain people, a Toshiba A300-177 laptop is stunning with great design and sleek looks, the laptop comes with Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T5550, 1.66 GHz, 667 MHz FSB, 2 MB Cache, 2GB Memory, 200GB Hard Drive Capacity, 15.4″ Widescreen TruBrite Display and DVD-SuperMulti Dual Layer.

The features do not stop there; the Toshiba A300-177 laptop that PC World is selling at the moment also includes Genuine Windows Vista (R) Home Premium, Built-In Webcam with Face Detection Technology, Intel GMA X3100 Graphics Card and Harman Kardon Speakers.

I have personally used this laptop and like it very much, the performance is great and will be one of the best entertainment laptops you have ever had.

Future Tech - The 256-Processor Laptop

“In 2020, only techies will
care about the technology in their laptops. Most users will never even
think about it, because laptops will have so much processing power and
the Internet cloud will offer so much storage. What will matter is
style. Here’s the vision of Lenovo’s Howard Locker, Master Inventor and
Chief of Strategic Technology.

• Bendable, thin slate folds up to slip into pocket.
• Screen usable outdoors.
• 6G, always-on, wireless connectivity reaches 550 Mbps.
• Thin, light battery lasts 5 to 7 days.
• 256-core processor is essentially a data center cluster on your lap.
• Touch screen and voice recognition; virtual keyboard with tactile feedback for serious content creation.
• Thin, light, 300-pixel-per-inch OLED screen rolls out to any size you want.
• Very light, strong material, even better than titanium. Entire system weighs half a pound.“

This is one amazing concept system. I cannot wait to see something like this. 2020 isn’t too far away. Hopefully we’ll all get a chance to see this type of technology in actions. Here’s a good question: what operating system do you think it’ll run if the OSs of today survived to 2020 Windows, Mac OS, Linux

Windows Mobile 7 May Power Mini Laptops

Qualcomm displayed a 3G, $299 mini-laptop today made by Inventec that is supposedly designed to run in the future (it runs Linux now). Windows Mobile 7, which supports Qualcomm's Snapdragon chipset, will in turn make the company more competitive in the mini-laptop space processor that's currently being dominated by Intel, AMD and Via. This meshes with what says about its Tegra processors being in Windows Mobile devices, meaning that WM7 could be Microsoft's way of covering both phones and mini-laptops with the same OS.

Future Apple Mac Laptops Gets Thinner

We have seen recently Apple is aiming to get their products thinner and lighter for their users. Along with ultra-portability they are adding in more stylish designs and touch sensitive keypads and LED displays. With the PDA industry dying and Apple focusing on current product lines, does it make sense to release such a product? We think it doesn’t. If anything, our guess is that Apple may choose to marry touch technology with down-to-Earth thinner notebooks for a better, far-reaching product: the MacBook Lite

The First Mobile WIMAX Baseband Chip

This development marks another major step in Intel’s efforts to deliver an “always best connected” mobile Internet experience for future laptops and mobile devices.

An Intel "Centrino" Duo mobile technology-based laptop with mobile WiMAX (IEEE 802.16e-2005), Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11n), and high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) 3G capabilities successfully accessing the Internet at broadband speeds over a mobile WiMAX network.

The demonstration illustrates the high-speed and quality of service capability of WiMAX for handling content-rich applications that can be extremely responsive without interference from other wireless technologies residing on the same system.

“Intel continues to drive innovation in mobile broadband access by eliminating the seams that prevent ubiquitous wireless connectivity.

“The Intel WiMAX Connection 2300 will help speed the deployment of mobile WiMAX, and accelerate the availability of a new wave of “personal broadband” laptops and mobile devices that deliver the real Internet.”

The completed design of the Intel WiMAX Connection 2300 brings Intel a step closer to an integrated wireless system-on-chip that will help drive WiMAX adoption by maximizing useable space in mobile devices.

As laptops become smaller, for example, they will have limited space for new technologies. Integration also helps enable ubiquitous connectivity on ultra mobile PCs, consumer electronics and handheld devices that have significant size constraints for the number of cards or components.

With global frequency support for standards-based Wi-Fi and WiMAX, scalable channel bandwidth, and high-performance multiple-antennas, the Intel WiMAX Connection 2300 will help bring about mobile communications and rich content across supported networks anywhere in the world.

For the first time, Intel incorporated multiple input/multiple output (MIMO) functionality into the base band chip to enhance the signal quality and throughput of wireless bandwidth.

The base band chip also employs the same software for Intel’s WiMAX and Wi-Fi solutions to help ensure unified management for connectivity.

Over-the-air provisioning supports easy configuration and enables consumer activation of services, shifting the traditional hands on service provider business model to a direct activation one based purely on consumer purchases of mobile devices.

The base band chip also has low power requirements for increased battery life and lower thermals to support smaller and thinner designs.

With the initial Intel WiMAX Connection 2300 chipset design now complete, Intel plans to focus on validating and testing the product, with plans to sample both card and module forms beginning in late 2007.

The future Laptops look like

3G connectivity rumored for upcoming Apple notebooks

Connecting to a 3G network on a Mac may be getting easier in upcoming notebooks. A credible source has stated that Apple is working on a PCI Express mini-card adapter that will bring WWAN connection to future laptops.

Apple is looking at a different approach to their WWAN card. Instead of putting it in the bottom of the notebook close to the board, they are wanting to shift the location to the lid behind the LCD. This would likely allow users to maintain a stronger signal in most cases.

Details such as which Apple notebooks will see the card first and which 3G networks will be supported are not currently available

LG concept laptop promises a sleeker future

LG, probably best known these days for popularizing chocolate as a gadget category, is extending some of those design chops to laptops. This slick concept notebook, called the "E-Book," uses an OLED screen for the monitor, so on top of being colorfully vibrant, it doesn't even need a frame. Another OLED surface stands in for the keyboard, just like the controls on some recent Samsung MP3 players. The cylinder hinge isn't just a design choice — it also acts as a reservoir for methanol or some other eco-friendly fuel, and it's transparent so you can see when you need to fill 'er up.

It all sounds fantastic until you remember it's just a concept right now, albeit one impressive enough to garner a nod form the guys at Red Dot for the Best Concept Design of 2006. Given that using OLED tech in monitors this size is still in its infancy and the whole powering-laptops-with-fuel thing has yet to actually happen, we probably won't be able to buy this pretty boy for quite some time.

The Compaq TC1000

The Compaq TC1000 is an exquisite example of how I hope future laptops will look like. I really like the simplicity of the design and the shape. The entire laptop is pretty much just comprised of the screen. There are no obtrusive buttons on the top. There are a few lights on the top which indicate little things like the WLAN, power, charging, etc. There are also a few activated switches that are gracefully hidden so much so that I didn’t even seem them at first, for which you can change the orientation of the screen (from portrait to landscape), etc. I really like the way the screen is centered on the tablet, a bit different than the comparable Fujitsu model.

Amazing future laptop images

Some interesting pictures about future laptops. I think portable computer like this will be in our life soon.

Top 5 Coolest Laptop Concepts

Future Laptops