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WePC.com – seeks crowd wisdom for PC design

WePC is community-driven site, managed by joint effort of Asus and Intel. Its aim is to give everyone opportunity to share their thoughts on PC design.

I’ve liked the idea until I browsed the site.

How it works

People submit their ideas and get promise that those are “evaluated by ASUS and could influence the blueprint for an actual notebook ”. And suddenly we are down from PC design to notebook only?

It does sound nice. But I am pretty sure that big companies get a lot of feedback naturally. Why pursue more? Maybe for extra publicity and those Asus advertisements all over site?

“Common sense” suggestions

Most voted suggestion at moment is one for waterproof laptop . Suggestion is perfectly good. It was around for years. Manufacturers can make waterproof notebooks or can sell extra one every time someone spills coffee . I think their choice is obvious.

“Not happening” suggestions

Stuff it with high-performance hardware, every existing wireless interface, ten hours of battery life and it must fit in pocket . These are like half of all suggestions. Sometimes they also mention that it should be very cheap.

“Open source everything” suggestions

Subtle Linux wars – every suggestion with this idea seems to mention different Linux distributive. Not happening any time soon (like not in this century).

I can go on…

…but visiting site would be more fun than reading about it. :) Don’t miss shark-implanted PC .

Overall

Decent idea unfortunately turned into humor reading. I am really curious how Asus and Intel are going to get out of this mess. Designing something real on such specification is so not possible.

Link http://www.wepc.com/