Someday all laptops will work like this ... for gamers and nongamers alike. Until then, we have the Prime Laptop, a slick-looking concept from Kyle Cherry Design of Seattle, to show us the way.
The Prime Laptop, folds neatly and meekly into a compact notebook form factor, then transforms like Optimus Prime into a 26-inch monster display when it's time to play. Because, as we all know, there's never enough screen when you're gaming.
"I was just thinking about how screens keep getting bigger and laptops keep getting smaller," Kyle told us. And for this young designer, that's when the OLED light bulb went off.
We caught up with Kyle because we think it's cool that the Prime Laptop's enclosure is aluminum, anodized in a titanium finish (at least it will be, someday -- the Prime Laptop is only a CAD file at this point).
Kyle is thinking aluminum for a couple of reasons, starting with thermal. An aluminum enclosure can be light, strong and good looking all at once. And, especially in a gaming machine with a red-hot graphics processor crammed into a tiny space, aluminum can be the biggest heat sink you ever saw.
But there's more. "I like to use natural products when I can," says Kyle. "You get a better feel, more pleasing to the touch. Metals are like that." And with its ability to support finishing processes like anodizing, "aluminum gives you the best esthetics" to boot.
Where does Kyle get his aluminum? A Seattle native, his favorite source is scrap from Boeing surplus. His favorite temper? T6.
Awwwww. That's us. Does this stuff recycle, or what?
Just stumbled across this by Googling...curious to find out if this laptop ever made it to production?
Posted by: Jason Murphy | 05/20/2010 at 09:05 AM