So I’d seen some nice videos by Nirav Patel for products featuring AMD’s latest integrated chipset (AI Max 395?), and these got me thinking about what’s the most convenient portable way to carry around so much processing power and use it.
At first I was imagining the idea of a portable collapsible keyboard that actually has the guts of a PC built into it. There would be no screen, and instead you’d plug VR glasses into it, (like BigScreen Beyond - and I’ve heard they’ve even announced a BigScreen Beyond 2) So this would give you a more portable screenless setup that you might even be able to store in your coat pockets.
Then later on, I thought maybe you could just have a collapsible keyboard without the PC guts built into it, and the PC portion would be kept in its own separate small module. These would connect either wirelessly, or through simple easy plug-in cable connection. And again you’d plug in your BigScreen Beyond / VR glasses into the PC module to use that as your primary display. What would we call this? A component PC? Portable component PC? Component laptop? Screenless laptop? Screenless portable component PC? Not sure.
That BigScreen Beyond looks pretty small, like it could fit into a coat pocket. Likewise, I think a collapsible/foldable portable keyboard could fit into another coat pocket. And then that would leave your PC module having to fit into yet another coat pocket. That needs a few coat pockets, but I thought it might allow you to more conveniently carry around more processing power than you could easily do with a laptop or notebook. And I think we’d want more processing power than what a mere notebook offers, and more similar to the processing power of a larger PC, which that new AMD AI Max 395 integrated chipset seems to make possible.
And I wanted to also leverage the newer possibilities from these newer smaller-sized VR glasses like BigScreen Beyond (again, I’ve heard they’ve also just announced a BigScreen Beyond 2 with even better specs). The VR glasses seem to give you quite a lot of screen real estate (visual real estate?) compared to what a conventional screen can provide, while still being quite portable and not bulky.
So that’s what I was imagining should be jointly leveraged by combining them together: the unprecedented processing power of newer integrated chipsets like AMD’s new AI Max 395, and also the large screen real estate of these unprecedentedly small VR glasses like BigScreen Beyond (or the newer BigScreen Beyond 2) - and then also a good quality collapsible/unfolding keyboard for input. Together these could perhaps give you the convenience of maximum functionality with maximum portability.
I confess that I’m not really a hardware developer (I’m just a software developer). It was just an idea I got and had been kicking around, after seeing Nirav Patel’s videos. What I’d really like to be able to do, is to buy and use a product like this. Is there anybody out there who might be working on something similar, to bring to market?
Maybe I should just be asking for critiques or critical feedback on the idea, to learn what more knowledgable people would have to say.