Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Intel Wants Notebook Components to be Easily Interchangeable
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 10:00 AM
"Intel wants to make laptops more accessible to users and would like to make devices more akin to their desktop counterparts. With the company's new Interchangeability Initiative, components including the optical drive, LCD screen, battery, power adapter and keyboard would all be upgradeable and can be swapped between notebooks. Hard drives are already for the most part interchangeable as long as you decide on PATA or SATA."
I for one would welcome this - notebooks are notoriously short-lived, there's always a faster one coming out, and if the chipset supports it, being able to upgrade the CPU or GPU would breathe new life into a notebook.
I for one would welcome this - notebooks are notoriously short-lived, there's always a faster one coming out, and if the chipset supports it, being able to upgrade the CPU or GPU would breathe new life into a notebook.
