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Comment Standardization of Laptop LCD Interfaces (Score 1) 356

by 2themax on Thursday December 09, 2010 @10:20AM (#34500076) Attached to: Goodbye, VGA

Hopefully this will mean that it will one day be possible to swap a laptop LCD with another one from a completely different manufacturer.

Right now every laptop manufacturer seems to use different electrical configurations, connectors and EDID.

Comment Re:MMMMMMM! Origami! (Score 1) 84

by 2themax on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @09:10AM (#32729484) Attached to: Programmable Origami

Imagine a computer with hardware that literally reforms its self to accomplish new tasks on the fly.

Reconfigurable computing is already possible with FPGAs. You can't go and buy commodity x86-type hardware such as CPUs or GPUs just yet, but "soon" (sooner than practical nuclear fusion, later than DNF) it will happen.

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