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Stickers on laptops usually make Jony Ive sad, and he's sad enough already being locked in that white room with one set of clothes. But this one is much better, because it occupies the entire laptop!
Actually, this just gave me a crazy idea... what if laptop manufacturers included something low powered like a boogie board device on the outside of the screen, which could write / save directly to some small internal storage of the laptop, and then the resulting notes could be accessible via the laptop when turned on? Kind of like.. a poor man's tablet on the outside of a laptop? I wonder the cost of that vs. touch…
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Maybe a real hard disk drive will, though.
It'll just slide down slowly. Try it, it's a cool experiment that showcases eddy currents.
Unfortunately for my screen-doodling habit, new MacBooks have some kind of coating (AR? Oleophobic?) that causes the marker's fluid to bead up, ruining the effect.
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It'll just slide down slowly. Try it, it's a cool experiment that showcases eddy currents.
I like the suggestion for a fun experiment, but I think pklausler was referring to the fact that strong magnets tend to wipe spinning hard drives, making magnets a bad idea for non-SSD laptops.
Actually, this just gave me a crazy idea... what if laptop manufacturers included something low powered like a boogie board device on the outside of the screen, which could write / save directly to some small internal storage of the laptop, and then the resulting notes could be accessible via the laptop when turned on? Kind of like.. a poor man's tablet on the outside of a laptop? I wonder the cost of that vs. touch…
And to erase it you could... shake your laptop?
I mean, it's annoying to do I guess, and requires hardware to detect shaking, but it's not terrible.