Asus, Intel launch WePC website, ask community to design PCs for them

True power is derived from the people, yes? Asus and Intel know this well, so they've launched a website called WePC, where users can draw up concepts and specs for new netbook and notebook models then argue about how fantastic or utterly impractical they are. In a sense cooperative laptop design is not new -- we've seen groups of companies work together to develop products, and Best Buy's Blue Label is somewhat similar to this -- but Asus and Intel are going full-on populist (or at least the appearance of it) with WePC. The promise is that designers will lurk on the site and implement some ideas -- probably (and thankfully) not including the ones that are completely whacked.

[Ahmed Alzayani Posted Oct 30th 2008 10:36AM]

my idea is

Sometime you want your 15.4” full-experience laptop, and sometime you are in the move and you just want your light 7” netbook/MID, instead if by 2 devices, why not integrate the two , The MID is dockable right into laptop and funcation as multi-touch trackpad in this mode, the MID part is fully independent with full wireless connectivity , low-voltage CPU, 120GB SSD and 7” multi-touch display. While the laptop-part contain secondary more powerful CPU and GPU, high-capacity HDD (say 1TB), more ports, and full 15.4” display and keyboard.

http://www.wepc.com/vote/view/dream/929/MID_BOOK

[warmonk Posted Oct 30th 2008 9:04PM]

Just send in a pic of the new macbook. As much as a I hate Apple for their proprietary BS, their hardware design is usually top notch.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 31st 2008 3:36AM]

I have an idea for a notebook/netbook -- I'm pretty sure its already been thought of though...

I want a notebook with BOTH internal side as TOUCHSCREEN LCD, sorta like the old skool Donkey Kong games of the 1980s (!!!).

Then I want to be able to bring up a "Virtual" keyboard on any area of the screen I feel like, and make it as big/small as I want.

Thanks for listening.

Miguel de Sousa

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 31st 2008 12:19PM]

Hehehehe! Didn't Herb Simpson lose his auto manufacturing business when he let his brother design the "Homer"?