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- colebarnes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1All of you "it can't be done" folks are missing the point. It's only a concept for goodness sake; even the article says:
"Markus Wierzoch of the company's Asus Design division admitted the concept doesn't yet exist as a working prototype, but he maintained that if technology evolves the way the company expects it to, building such a machine will be feasible in the future. That said, he didn't provide a date when Asus expects that point to be reached."
So, Asus is saying that they think it would be cool, but the technology doesn't exist yet... But look what MIGHT be possible some day... - njbair, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They should make a modular PC where each module looks like an NES cartridge. Then if somebody asks if that's your computer, you can just say, "no those are just some old NES cartridges," and they'll probably think you're l33t or something.
- Indrek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wireless transfer? Between the CPU, GPU, RAM etc? That I'd like to see.
Cool concept, and dugg for the design, but the wireless part has "bottleneck" slapped on it with bit neon letters. - Brak710101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Cool, but when some ninja looter steals my loot and I go balistic, I don't want to have my computer fall in a domino effect.
Not cool.
(j/k) - bacon_skoda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this looks like a concept only. If this was real, then I'll digg.
Popular Science showed a modular concept 10 years ago.
The difference between these concepts and a 5th grader doodling a modular PC is zero. - ohsnapitsbrown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Didn't a design student come up with this in a contest? Does he/she have a patent? I hope so..."
It was a Microsoft-sponsored contest, I believe - CaughtThinking, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0what about cooling? awesome idea though. I've always thought computers should be exposed in some way. the internal card concept is TERRIBLE.
- zoltan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0asus is off the hook... only complaint is my asus z80k is practically unknown in the world of computers (relying on 2 yr old drivers, never any updates)
- estxplosif, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sure, this looks innovative and so forth but imagine how helpless to the mercy of ASUS's pricing and support structure you'd be, locked into such a proprietary format. Unless the specs were thrown open to other manufacturers I wouldn't really be interested.
- gometro33, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Has is really come to the point that people are linking to other news sites?
- MadMan459, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0-digg. That concept blows. If it is to actually fit on a bookshelf of some sort, then it would have to have all the cables (power, monitor, USB, etc.) facing the FRONT. Sure it looks sleek and cool as it is, now picture it with a bunch of cables hanging off of it. How are those modules locked down? Would the weight and or stress of several USB cables connected to that module cause it to tip forward? How are they going to wirelessly interconnect all the modules without causing a total glut of RFI? Will it affect other 802.11x, bluetooth, or non-computer related (phones, baby monitors, etc.) wireless devices?
I can see my cat laying down in the empty space, and knocking over a module or two in the process. Thanks but, uh ... no. - codethis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0twas a joke
- Warptera, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Oh, sweetness!
- snugglebunny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Didn't a design student come up with this in a contest? Does he/she have a patent? I hope so...
- MadEnvoy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Different PC: http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/20/microsoft-idsa-design-competition-highlights/
The Asus PC is fugly the Microsoft "sponsored" PC actually looks pretty good. - Rabid_Llama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Wireless transfer? Between the CPU, GPU, RAM etc? That I'd like to see.
Cool concept, and dugg for the design, but the wireless part has "bottleneck" slapped on it with bit neon letters."
I'm surprised nobody said this until now. "Want to upgrade your processor? Swap modules. Need a new hard drive or graphics engine? Same thing." Riiight... because you can get the transfer rates necessary to run a GPU and CPU over wireless at anything like full speed. Now, I like the design idea, but it's fully infeasible unless the "shelves" are just things like harddrives and other peripherals... and there's wiring in the base unit to hook them up. - EtherGnat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0timmarhy wrote: "also i seriously doubt there will ever be a pc where you can just swap out the cpu anytime you want like that."
It's been done already. In 1991 when I got my first PC (486DX 33MHz) they had a computer with the processor in a cartridge unit. You could upgrade by purchasing a new processor and sliding it in. Of course there was a substantial price premium for the computer itself, processor cartridges were outrageously expensive, and they didn't improve performance much. Even when $2500 was a good price for a computer it wasn't worth it. - EtherGnat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I had this idea about 10 years ago. A stackable computer design where processor, hard drive, graphics card, etc. were all in stackable units. Just buy whatever components you needed. I wasn't thinking of using wireless, and I still don't think it's a good idea. A hardwired bus that connects when you snap the units together would make more sense. It would make upgrades ridiculously easy--just drop on a new unit. I really thought it was going to be the future at the time.
Now I don't think it makes sense. What I didn't foresee was how cheap computers would get. Computers are so cheap they're disposable now negating much of the need to upgrade. With prices so low the premium a setup like this would add is going to price itself right out of the market. - vonskippy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is soooo stupid. Computers are now a commodity. You don't replace parts, you replace systems. This design would lock you into a old technology 6 months after you bought it, or will be no better then current systems by making the back plane incompatible with older models. With system size dropping to micro ITX and smaller, who cares about module.
- heymark, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0No thanks.
Modular PCs are an interesting idea. But, not this one. It's not locigal, or effective, in the computing sense. Just... "nifty" looking. If that. - vertigoblue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0yeah... i really think that's not such a good idea... unless you could put normal components into the "books" like one book is PCI-X 16 and one accepts a 939 pin processor, and you could just use normal stuff inside.
(probably not an eloquent post, on account of the drunkenness) - codethis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0they should make wireless electricity - then we would be in business
- caleberx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The only problem is going to be the wireless transfer. :(
- tw0bit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0it will never come out
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i'm confused by everyone obession with wireless. wireless connectivity between hd and cpu? ***** aweful idea. and why bother anyway since you HAVE to have a power rail in there to plug them into, why not use that rail to to also carry motherboard style interconnects.
also i seriously doubt there will ever be a pc where you can just swap out the cpu anytime you want like that. - vertigoblue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0when they mention "wireless" they might be referring to lack of loose wires, meaning the power and components interface along the plate at the bottom probably on rails with each component having a different rail layout on the bottom to come in contact to the lines it needs to tap into the power and the other connections throughout, like track lighting...
(again, probably not an eloquent post, on account of the drunkenness) - caleberx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Also could you change the length of the platform?
- squegie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"This is totally unfeasible. Someone had mentioned micro-ITX/mini-ITX, which is also a very unfeasible idea, due to its size, which is just too small. I can build the computer I bout last year, when it was top of the line, for around 900 bucks, with everything. Unless these were micro sized, wheee you could slip it into your pocket, it won't work. If you could fit like a proc, ram, hd, etc. in your pocket then maybe. Maybe a wearable type cmputer, using wireless USB to communicate with HDs, Periphs, etc. would work. "Hey, Dude, Can I borrow a couple gigs of RAM?" "I'm tring to re-encode a video.""Sure, here you go". Online in your dreams/12 years."
NEC made this stuff a few years ago. Ok, nothing really looks like you can swap ram seperately, but the P-ISM pen computer is just amazing, the "resonantware" seems interesting. Also, keep in mind that most of NEC's concept gadgets were actually built and demoed by them. Granted, made at incredible cost and only one or two of each. http://www.nec-design.co.jp/showcase/#pism - turgiddahlia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah, we're never going to see this.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1When Jobs slaps an Apple logo on one of these, watch all of those same people who think this sucks become total fans.,
- lame_duck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Call me when they invent a computer like this: http://www.slcm.dk/collection/Chobits-M02.jpg
- theragu40, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0and to all the people naysaying? dag. what do you expect? it's a CONCEPT. It isn't real, nor would it be for possilby years. By then maybe wireless will be better.
- alexmiller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is totally unfeasible. Someone had mentioned micro-ITX/mini-ITX, which is also a very unfeasible idea, due to its size, which is just too small. I can build the computer I bout last year, when it was top of the line, for around 900 bucks, with everything. Unless these were micro sized, wheee you could slip it into your pocket, it won't work. If you could fit like a proc, ram, hd, etc. in your pocket then maybe. Maybe a wearable type cmputer, using wireless USB to communicate with HDs, Periphs, etc. would work. "Hey, Dude, Can I borrow a couple gigs of RAM?" "I'm tring to re-encode a video.""Sure, here you go". Online in your dreams/12 years.
- alexmiller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Oops, that "Only in your dreams.". WE NEED AN EDIT BUTTON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
- Boondoggle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"This is totally unfeasible. Someone had mentioned micro-ITX/mini-ITX, which is also a very unfeasible idea, due to its size, which is just too small. I can build the computer I bout last year, when it was top of the line, for around 900 bucks, with everything. Unless these were micro sized, wheee you could slip it into your pocket, it won't work. If you could fit like a proc, ram, hd, etc. in your pocket then maybe. Maybe a wearable type cmputer, using wireless USB to communicate with HDs, Periphs, etc. would work. "Hey, Dude, Can I borrow a couple gigs of RAM?" "I'm tring to re-encode a video.""Sure, here you go". Online in your dreams/12 years."
You are clearly a tech visionary. - Elranzer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"When Jobs slaps an Apple logo on one of these, watch all of those same people who think this sucks become total fans."
Funny you mention this, since Asus actually is the company that manufactures the Powerbooks and MacBook Pros :-) - Elranzer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hey, you all at home can do this yourself. just use a tiny Nano-ITX PC with all external USB/Firewire components. This concept just makes it pretty. Although it is a rip-off of the Microsoft-sponsored design contest, which looked better.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This isn't the dumbest thing Asus has ever done, it's just the dumbest thing they're going to do today.
Yesterday it was the "Lamborghini laptop" .........:rolleyes: - vertigoblue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0one thing that would be awesome is the ability to (like if you had two) take a processor "book" from one computer and just pop it onto another one if you needed 2 processors for a project, or the day, or whenever you don't need 2 computers or something... that would be pretty cool "hot swappable" processors...
- treehead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0no digg
- pbjorge12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's definitely a good concept...
I mean I can easily install a new GPU or PCI card but it would be so much nicer to just "stack" the new item on top of my current PC... - dpk87, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The Microsoft sponsored PC is better.
- DanLikesBeer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This was done a VERY long time ago
http://www.sunsoft.no/bilder/ctos.jpg
Those things were a PITA to work with.... - gali, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0don' t know if it work, but i like it :)
- eltoozero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0O snap, you mean that wasn't the "virus module" shelf?
Plug and pray forever apparently. - charlesny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0one word simple........COOL
- I8PP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That's one weird looking CD rack, +Digg to annoy those who think saying "no digg" is useful
- LiquidPenguin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The whole moduler idea is almost as old as modern PC design theory itself. I've seen some prototype designs from Atari for almost the exact same thing (sans wireless). I agree with everyone else here, how the hell are they going to get around the typical limitations of wireless technology here? What about interference? I don't see this being viable for gamers like myself. This might be feasible if they used some sort of quantum communication thing though....
- gali, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0don' t really know if it can work, but i like it :)
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