itt /g/ builds the ideal laptop

no ports at all... It's going to sell like hot cakes.

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>>57884940
/thread

I just want 4 ram slots

removable outside cooling solution that's quiet but powerful

easy fan cleaning

no fucking touch screen

>>57885047
>I just want 2 ram sluts

floppy drive.

Idk shit about laptops but something with around 2500k performance that could run low volts enough to get 14 hours of movie watching/office work. Id settle for a 4th of that for light gaming. As far as I've heard this is where intel struggles with their igps but id be happy with 7970 performance and I think that would even be overkill. Running something like overwatch or a relatively modern diablo clone would be more than enough for long train rides/short plane rides or weekend lan parties.

All this in a 15" formfactor not obsessed eith thinness would be fine, 12 is something id like but dont have much experience with them. Some sort of bay that could house a dvd drive so I dont have to carry an external or a spare battery (like the idea of swapping main batteries without needing to powerdown)

On second thought id probably end up playing gba emulators on trips if anything.

A non retarded keyboard layout would be great. Never tried the clit but I dont think itd get in the way if I ended up hating it.

Readonably serviceable, ram/hdd/ssd being accessible eithout too much work and not having to feel like im assembling a mansions worth of ikea furniture to clean out fans.

>>57885276
Dual CD ROM

>>57884940
100% libre firmware
ARM Cortex A-73 quad-core CPU
32 GiB ECC
14" display @ 2880x1800 IPS, matte

>>57884940
a 2013 macbook pro with ssd running win7 through bootcamp

>>57885316
dual CD ROM and a DVD-writer... Also a Blueray player

i5u processor kaby lake
bright ips matte display that covers 99% of sRGB
large trackpad that's extremely accurate
huge fucking battery
stereo front facing speakers with dolby home theater to lower distortion
lots of ports plus 2 usb c ports
wolfson dac and TI amp
NVME ssd
16gb of ram

>>57885491
>bright ips matte display that covers 99% of sRGB
Is there something like that available now?

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Get a PowerBook G4 Titanium chassis, put a 1920x1280 screen and fix the Titanium coating, get AMD Zen or Broadwell in the laptop, no dGPU to keep a long battery life, put four ram slots and thunderbolt 3 capable USB-C and you've got a better laptop than anything that's out on the market as of now.

windows 10
norton

>>57884940
2012 MacBook Pro with Retina display, TB3, socketed Xeon, user serviceable ECC RAM, battery that slots into the bottom like old MacBooks, and no flat shit in OS X.

14 inch 1920x1200 OLED display
Passively cooled U series i7 processor.
16GiB DDR4 RAM
500GB Samsung 960 EVO
100Whr battery
Professional grade long travel distance keyboard with track-clitoris
The new 5Gb/s standard Ethernet port
Designed and manufactured by Fujitsu in Germany and/or Japan

>>57885551
>no flat shit in OS X.
No macOS at all, why would the ideal laptop use HFS or a patchwork kernel?
I agree with the rest except the Xeon, you'd either have a 5-minute battery or you'd have to underclock it to hell, and having 12 shit cores in a desktop isn't as good as 4 medium cores. There isn't that much parallel processing on a desktop OS.
Doesn't ECC RAM also consume a lot more power?

>>57885569
+ Free-as-in-freedom firmware
A smart card reader
Docking port
And the battery is hotswappable

>>57885569
>Designed and manufactured by Fujitsu in Germany and/or Japan
how does that make a laptop better?

>>57885610
No reports of those countries forcing companies to ship backdoored products as is the case with US (along with the rest of the Anglosphere) and China.

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>>57885610
Fujitsu has superb build quality.
This post had the stupidest captcha of all times, what the fuck.

>>57885605
>No macOS at all, why would the ideal laptop use HFS or a patchwork kernel?
HFS+ isn't as bad as people make it out to be and it's being replaced. I don't understand the bitching about the kernel, but if there are problems then fix them.

There are mobile Xeons now, and I imagine unregistered ECC RAM consumes the same power as non ECC unregistered RAM.

>>57885662
hope you don't actually think this
Germany is cucked as fuck and will pit backdoors into anything and japs are just going to manufacture their products in chink land.

plus you are connected to the Internet, you are welcoming the nsa into your files. Get a reality check

>>57885706
>HFS+ isn't as bad as people make it out to be
It's a case-sensitive filesystem, are you joking?
We live in a world with zfs and the laptop you suggested had ECC ram, how was this not your first suggestion?

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Here it is. You dont need to build something

thinkpad

>>57885707
I'm sure there are people in the German government willing to ramp up mass surveillance, but there are also definitely others who remember Stasi.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/09/german-spies-broke-law-must-delete-xkeyscore-database-says-watchdog/

>>57885729
>It's a case-sensitive filesystem
It's case insensitive by default and case sensitivity is The Unix Way™
>We live in a world with zfs and the laptop you suggested had ECC ram, how was this not your first suggestion?
Because ZFS does not belong on a desktop, much less a laptop with limited RAM. I'm holding judgement for APFS until 10.13, but I'll assume it's on par with everything else out today.

>>57885743
remove windows and you're fine

>>57884940
Thinkpad retro is basically that

>>57884940
A laptop with a Atom CPU and a 9 cell battery with a 14" 4:3 1200p IPS screen.

With 1 USB C, 3 USB 3.1, Display port, HDMI, VGA, 2 SATA3 slots, 1 M2 slot, trackpoint, 2 mPCIe slots, one for WLAN and other for something extra.

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>dual 17-inch g-sync 144hz displys
>butterfly mechanical keyboard with RGB BL
>overclocked i7-6970HQ
>SLI 1080
>beats audio
>RAID nvme SSDs
>custom anime themed windows 10
>military-class styling

>dual cd rom
>floppy drive
>ethernet, dial-up modem
>vga port, rc video out, hdmi
>mouse clit
>16 ram slots
>16 usb-a ports
>4 hdd slots
>matte display with washed out colors
>only supports gentoo

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>>57885955

> beats audio

>>57885743

>touchpad which will erode your finger tip after 5 months
>plastic body which will go all shiny and disgusting after 3 months
>forever dusty and dirty looking <300 nit matte display

No, thank you.

>>57885955

>RGB BL

Are you 8? You want rainbow colors on your keyboard?

>>57885770
>It's case insensitive
By forcing unicode conversion which a stupid hotfix for a design flaw.
>case sensitivity is The Unix Way™
Only macfags give a shit about muh Unix. It's a stupid idea, files ~/bashrc and ~/bashRC are not the same thing because the strings "bashrc" and "bashRC" are not the same thing either. Way too much credit is given to the Unix spec.
>Because ZFS does not belong on a desktop
Ok fair enough, but then why else do you want ECC?
>I'm holding judgement for APFS until 10.13, but I'll assume it's on par with everything else out today.
From what I've seen it's better than anything we have today for desktop-oriented OS's. I really want it ported to Linux, but I know that won't happen.

Macbook Air with the same screen as the Pro

>>57886381
>By forcing unicode conversion which a stupid hotfix for a design flaw.
It might not be the best thing but it's functional. I'm really not trying to defend HFS+, it needed to be sacked a long time ago, but it hasn't particularly failed me in the years I've been using Macs. Understand?
>Only macfags give a shit about muh Unix. It's a stupid idea, files ~/bashrc and ~/bashRC are not the same thing because the strings "bashrc" and "bashRC" are not the same thing either.
You think it's stupid but you agree that that's the way it should be? I'm not following.
>Ok fair enough, but then why else do you want ECC?
I wouldn't necessarily specify it in my machine, but the MacBook Pro is supposed to be a mobile workstation and in the mobile workstation sector if you don't have ECC RAM available then you are behind.
>From what I've seen it's better than anything we have today for desktop-oriented OS's. I really want it ported to Linux, but I know that won't happen.
That's good news. Are you using the developer preview?

Intel processor w/ libre microcode
libreboot
16GB ram
14" 4:3 1080p
hdmi out
4 x usb 3.0
7 row thinkpad keyboard + trackpoint
1080p webcam

>>57886658
>Intel w/ libre microcode
Dream on

>>57886551
>You think it's stupid but you agree that that's the way it should be? I'm not following.
I'm a moron who misread your post, we agree sensitivity is the best way.

>That's good news. Are you using the developer preview?
Nope, I use a mac at work and no way I'm installing a beta filesystem on a development machine.

>>57886226
i remember this io remember what it was like to not feel like a cripple

>>57885142
Found the Welshman

>>57884940
Any Thinkpad from 51nb is already perfect.

one that is a desktop i have no use for laptops

>>57885337
>not oled
pleb

>>57886941
i dont think they make oled screens THAT big

>>57886941
Enjoy your yellow after 2 years

>>57886967
>What are OLED TVs
also http://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-X1-Yoga-OLED-Convertible-Review.169458.0.html

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easy

>>57887121
so then that laptop should always have perfect font rendering then right?

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>>57885142

>>57887121
Glossy screens are unusable

>>57887182
Only vector displays can have perfect font rendering.

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>>57887284
>>57887121
top kek

>>57884940
made me spill my yerba mate

>>57887182
I posted the link to show that there literally is a laptop with a 14 inch OLED display on the market, not to suggest that it's good.

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I've got a screen we can use.

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>>57887304

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A huge tablet like pic related (took off google) with pressure stylus and a wireless trackpoint keyboard.

>>57887367
>What's your ideal car?
>A unicycle

>>57887458
Tablets are the next evolution of portable computing, deal with it.
They're basically like monoblock PCs these days. Satisfy all your portable computing needs without the outdated flip-book paradigm.

The next-next step in the evolution of portable computing will be wireless VR glasses and a computer embedded into a keyboard.

t. tech visionary

>>57884998
I always wondered, does this work? If so, how does it affect performance?

>>57885052
I don't care about a touch screen and would rather not to keep price down, but other than that why not?

>>57884940
CR-48 with full linux and better internals. (e.g. i7, 16GB of RAM, at least 500GB of storage, and a nice 2560x1600 IPS display)

T H I N K P A D
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Thinkpad X301 with modern specs, but ditch the ODD for moar battery

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>>57885955

>>57887571
Well, seems like there is Power Base converter which essentially is Sega Master System add-on for Mega Drive so it wouldn't work at all. Meaning that the hardware inside the Power Base Converter tries to run the topmost cart as SMS game.

>>57885743
let's ask Louis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doEZMNXz1JY

>>57887893
but that doesnt have USB boot how would you install an OS?

>>57888235
Shane

>>57888695
>... with modern specs
Probably includes USB boot.
Alternatively, PXE.

>>57884940
chromebook pixel design
NVME SSD
Thinkpad T60 keyboard and ultranav
3k, 4:3 or 16:10 IPS panel with 100% adobeRGB atleast 300 candela
USB-C with Thunderbolt
Displayport
switchable RAM and SSD
good integrated DAC
linux support
atleast 8hr battery life
spill proof keyboard
rollcage
no ODD