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15. Inexpensive computers with HDMI outputs for high quality digital connection of both video and audio to HD TVs and to computer monitors with only one cable. The audio portion of the HDMI signal should be capable of carrying 5.1 and 7.1 channel sound produced by DVDs, WMA files, DIVx video files, etc.
14. Computer monitors with HDMI inputs for high quality digital connection of both video and audio with only one cable.
13. Computers with no hard drive: Remember the days when a typical computer had two 5 1/4" floppy drives, but no hard drive? Until you booted up off floppy drive A, the computer couldn’t do anything! Things were so simple and understandable. My proposal is based upon the fact that removeable flash memory is now up to 4 GB and rising, so why not build computers with no hard drive which are designed to bootup Windows or Linux off removeable flash memory? Then the entire bootup memory card could be copied to another memory card, so that the cards would be completely interchangeable! No more problems with hard drive crashes or hard drives that won’t boot! No more problems with computers that are set up in an unfamiliar way with an unfamiliar set of application software. Everyone could personalize their software so that whatever computer they were using would be 100% familiar! In addition to at least two identical high speed flash memory card sockets, a typical computer should have a Blu-ray or HD DVD-ROM burner for playing / recording music and movies, and for inexpensive data storage on CD/DVD-ROMs.
12. A full powered Windows XP sub-compact computer which, in order to save weight, space and battery power, would not have wireless networking, a floppy drive or a CD/DVD-ROM drive. However, it would have a very large capacity hard drive, lots of RAM memory, and a very fast CPU. The only connectors that it would have are USB 2.0 ports. Even headphones and a microphone would plug into USB ports for maximum flexibility and reliability. One possibility would be for 5.1 digital surround sound USB headphones to be made available for such a computer.
11. A computer with all of the same outputs as the new Xbox 360 including High Definition digital video and Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound.
10. A full powered Windows XP sub-compact computer which, in order to save weight and to save battery power, would not have a pointing device, keyboard, floppy drive, CD/DVD-ROM drive, or hard drive. It’s only built-in I/O devices would be a “touch screen,” a USB and/or network interface, a speaker, and a microphone. The microphone could be used for voice recognition input. No moving parts would result in very long battery life. It should have a CPU designed for extending battery life, and a small size monochrome LCD screen with optional backlighting would further extend battery life. The ideal would be for two “AA” batteries to last for hundreds of hours so that the computer would never have to be used with an AC adapter or with rechargable batteries.
9. A hand-held device with built-in voice recognition software so that speech could be instantly transcribed into a text file which could be transferred to a computer through a USB interface.
8. Computer like #6 and #7 above with the addition of a “Partial backup” icon on the desktop. Clicking this icon would store all changes since the last full backup on a CD. Then even a completely empty hard drive could be restored by first booting up off of the latest full backup DVD #1, doing a full restore from that series of DVDs, and then restoring the latest partial backup CD. This would restore the computer to exactly the state that it was in at the time of the last partial backup. If a partial backup would not fit on one CD, then the software would recommend, prior to the partial backup being performed, that a full backup be performed instead.
7. Computer like #6 above, with a “Backup” icon on the desktop. Clicking this icon will cause a “full backup” to be performed, thus creating a bootable DVD plus as many DVDs as are required. This would allow the computer with a brand new or a “crashed” hard drive to be easily and automatically restored to exactly the same state that it was in at the time of the last full backup.
6. Computer which comes with one bootable “restore” DVD capable of restoring the hard drive to exactly the same state as when the computer was first purchased. If neccessary, the DVD could be of the dual layer type.
5. All computers/DVD players should have DVI outputs, and all LCD/plasma TVs/computer monitors should have DVI inputs. Why convert the digital video signal to analog and then have to convert the analog signal back to digital?
4. All DVD players have something called a “digital audio output.” This output is compatible with stereo, “Dolby® Pro Logic” surround, and 5.1, 6.1, and 7.1 channel surround sound. It is usually the “coax” type but an optical digital output is often included instead of, or in addition to, the coax output. It would be nice if computer audio cards were available with a digital audio output for the highest possible audio quality on the many audio receivers which have this type of input.
3. Most DVD players have something called a “component video output.” It would be nice if PCI and AGP video cards were available with a component video output for the highest possible video quality on the many TVs which do not have a DVI input, but have a component video input.
2. A wireless keyboard with a built-in pointing device which also comes with a wireless mouse so that the user would have a choice of which pointing device to use.
1. A laptop computer with wireless networking, two batteries, and an external charger which works on AC or a car’s cigarette lighter so that the laptop never has to be connected to anything. (Why not? This is the way that professional cordless electric drills come! Could it be that construction workers, as a group, have more common sense than the average laptop computer user? Laptop computer users should demand better!)
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