The best laptop money can't buy
InfoWorld designs the next-gen laptop that PC makers could ship in 2009. But will they? Explore our ideal thick and thin laptops via interactive Flash, and check out the technical specs, product highlights, and pricing and options below.
The birth of the InfoWorld WorldBooks
What sort of laptop could vendors create, using volume components and keeping costs to a minimum, if they were willing to think outside the boring old box? To find out, we designed one ourselves.
Not willing to accept the assumption that laptop computers have to be boring, InfoWorld assembled a team of technology experts from its staff and charged them with the goal of designing a genuinely innovative notebook. We subjected our project to the limitations that any manufacturer faces when it starts whiteboarding a new notebook. Components must either be available now in sufficient quantity to support volume production, or have component manufacturers’ contractual commitment to availability at a supportable price within the next 12 months. As you’ll see, it’s unlikely that our design could be taken from brain trust to working prototype in a year, but the time constraint was necessary to limit the number of feature options that could be brought to the table....more
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