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MacBook logic board is probably less than 20% of its total cost. So by the time you put screen, speakers, keyboard, trackpad, battery, ports, case, hinge, char

MacBook logic board is probably less than 20% of its total cost. So by the time you put screen, speakers, keyboard, trackpad, battery, ports, case, hinge, charging into your dock you might as well computer there.

philistine 1y ago
Yeah, I totally agree with you but usually people who complain about not being able to plug their phone want a desktop, not a laptop. Even then, sitting down at a desk gives you a thermal envelope that is only limited by the noise of its cooling, so you can put extremely powerful chips on desktops again defeating the purpose.
StopDisinfo910 1y ago
I don’t want a laptop dock. I want to be able to connect my phone to the dock I already have on my desk or carry with me a foldable screen and keyboard when I need portability. That would give me a larger lighter screen that a MacBook and a better typing experience. I already have headphones. I already have a secondary battery. Actually make all of this wireless and that would be perfect. Plus if the screen support touch you have a tablet. The laptop has a device makes less and less sense now that the cpu and gpu inside a phone are good enough for most. It’s propped up only because phone providers artificially limit what the software on the phone can do.
- dzhiurgis 1y ago
  The amount of friction in this is insane. The only way this can work is wireless at which point you are reinventing a laptop.
  - StopDisinfo910 1y ago
    How are you reinventing a laptop? There is zero friction. You already have the phone. All the pieces are technically there to seamlessly connecting to a screen and a keyboard wirelessly and have it become a proper computer which is what it always was. I think Google has seen it and that’s why they have started working on their desktop mode but they are sadly stuck with underpowered cpu. You need to think bigger. The sole reason this is not already a reality is because it would be a loss of money for Apple.

philistine 1y ago

Yeah, I totally agree with you but usually people who complain about not being able to plug their phone want a desktop, not a laptop. Even then, sitting down at a desk gives you a thermal envelope that is only limited by the noise of its cooling, so you can put extremely powerful chips on desktops again defeating the purpose.

StopDisinfo910 1y ago

I don’t want a laptop dock. I want to be able to connect my phone to the dock I already have on my desk or carry with me a foldable screen and keyboard when I need portability. That would give me a larger lighter screen that a MacBook and a better typing experience. I already have headphones. I already have a secondary battery. Actually make all of this wireless and that would be perfect. Plus if the screen support touch you have a tablet. The laptop has a device makes less and less sense now that the cpu and gpu inside a phone are good enough for most. It’s propped up only because phone providers artificially limit what the software on the phone can do.

dzhiurgis 1y ago
The amount of friction in this is insane. The only way this can work is wireless at which point you are reinventing a laptop.
- StopDisinfo910 1y ago
  How are you reinventing a laptop? There is zero friction. You already have the phone. All the pieces are technically there to seamlessly connecting to a screen and a keyboard wirelessly and have it become a proper computer which is what it always was. I think Google has seen it and that’s why they have started working on their desktop mode but they are sadly stuck with underpowered cpu. You need to think bigger. The sole reason this is not already a reality is because it would be a loss of money for Apple.