Question How many years till cordless servers, and desktop tower computers, hit the market?

[Amol S.]

How many more years till they come out?

Will they be powered by lantern or multiple 9V batteries?

Or will they be powered by a similar technology like Qi-Fi, that currently charges our phones wirelessly?

Or will they be powered by WiFi signalls?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Enjoying yourself I see. Well, carry on.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I fail to see the reasoning behind a fully-cordless (I assume that you mean power, too?) desktop PC, or especially, server.

Wired electronics still has a place, and for good reason.

 

[Greenman]

How many more years till they come out?

Will they be powered by lantern or multiple 9V batteries?

Or will they be powered by a similar technology like Qi-Fi, that currently charges our phones wirelessly?

Or will they be powered by WiFi signalls?

You could build your own cordless computer tomorrow, as could any number of company's around the world. The burning question is, why bother? Who needs a portable server? Who's going to drag around a tower case and a 24" monitor? If were going down this road, why not build a diesel powered computer, or coal fired? Why not a hard wired smart phone for people that don't go out much? Lets go for the Holy Grail of electronics, the cordless cord, a 120v extension cord that's also a battery with an inverter built in.

 

[mindless1]

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Any other questions?

Wireless power delivery is horribly inefficient, would be a downgrade over current tech... [rant] until they shrink the darn IEC PSU connector/socket like they've shrunk everything else to the point where it becomes unnecessarily fragile and breaks if you look at it wrong[/rant].

 

[killster1]

You could build your own cordless computer tomorrow, as could any number of company's around the world. The burning question is, why bother? Who needs a portable server? Who's going to drag around a tower case and a 24" monitor? If were going down this road, why not build a diesel powered computer, or coal fired? Why not a hard wired smart phone for people that don't go out much? Lets go for the Holy Grail of electronics, the cordless cord, a 120v extension cord that's also a battery with an inverter built in.

Umm pretty sure in the future everything will have some iron man power core that powers the device for years

 

[WelshBloke]

Cordless PC powered by batteries?

Guys talking about a laptop.

 

[ultimatebob]

Yeah, I'm actually surprised that someone hasn't built something like an Intel NUC with a built in UPS and some Lithium batteries. It seems like a decent idea for a hot standby/failover server.

I see that NEC actually did something like that as a prototype, but that was a rackmount server. My idea would be a lot more portable.

 

[Zaap]

Cordless PC powered by batteries?

Guys talking about a laptop.

Bingo.

The one shred of a decent idea here is laptops charging via laying them on top of the same wireless chargers we charge our phones with.

 

[ultimatebob]

You could build your own cordless computer tomorrow, as could any number of company's around the world. The burning question is, why bother? Who needs a portable server? Who's going to drag around a tower case and a 24" monitor? If were going down this road, why not build a diesel powered computer, or coal fired? Why not a hard wired smart phone for people that don't go out much? Lets go for the Holy Grail of electronics, the cordless cord, a 120v extension cord that's also a battery with an inverter built in.

I'd like to say that they would come in handy for disaster relief, but the Red Cross and whatnot tends to use laptops now with a cellular or satellite connection to "the cloud" for data processing. If they need to recharge, they have generators and folding solar arrays in the truck that they came in.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Yeah, I'm actually surprised that someone hasn't built something like an Intel NUC with a built in UPS and some Lithium batteries. It seems like a decent idea for a hot standby/failover server.

There exists Chinese-made mini-PCs (Think Bay Trail / Cherry Trail Atom systems), that are also combo Power Bank units, and can run off of the battery for some time. (Powered by +5V USB.)

 

[JEDIYoda]

As soon as they integrate dilithium crystals into the power grid!!