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Combination Ultra-Portable Docking "Notebook" and Zero-Footprint Computer Base

60 points posted to Desktops and Laptops, Enterprise by kenjennings 03/01/08

Take a Notebook and discard the battery, keyboard, and display which cuts down the size and weight tremendously and essentially results in an extremely portable, small form factor computer.

The computer is used one of two ways:
1) Plugged into a Notebook docking station which can optionally provide additional USB ports, another hard drive, etc.
2) As the base of a small form factor, zero footprint, desktop by clipping it to the back of an LCD monitor and adding a keyboard and mouse.

My motivation for this is that I have a Lattitude for work that just travels between docking stations at work and home. I can't remember the last time I actually opened the case and used its keyboard and display. So, I'm dragging all this useless weight around all the time. It would be nice to just carry the essential computing parts.

This proposed computer would work fine without the docking station, too, needing only a few wires for power and one for video. If one desired, using wifi and bluetooth it could be hooked up to a network and keyboard/mouse without any additional wires.

jmxz
03/01/08		 I think the idea was mostly phrased a bit awkwardly. If I follow what he's asking it sounds OK to me.
millhauz
03/02/08		 sounds like the optiplex ultra small form factor taken to a next level...i think many people would use that, specially the ones who use docking stations. Like someone here said in a comment - "I can´t remember the last time I actually opened my latitude"
bsmmoney
03/02/08		 Add a 20" monitor and you get an XPSOne
Subtract it again and you have a "Dell Mini"
(PLEASE forgive the Mac reference...I dislike them too)
bsmmoney
03/02/08		 Are you saying clip on like a Dell sound bar? Then you could take your machine to any other Dell monitor and clip it on?
 
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