Now I'm sure we all know the UMPC is the greatest portable computing device ever conceived, however the only examples we have of it are very old machines with poor everything or Chinese UMPCs with still poor everything
So the question becomes how do we turn the newest intel NUC into a UMPC? basically it needs a keyboard, battery pack, and display of some kind
a case could be 3-D printed without much issue
- - the point here is that it's full fat X86 will a lot of capability, unlike say a raspberry pi UMPC
I don't think that's possible for two simple reasons: power and thermals. That thing requires a 19V 120W input and will require something like a notebook power circuit that can accept 11-12V laptop batteries and makes them compatible with the device. Also I'm sure that such a machine also requires a pretty good cooling system that can breathe and requires surface to dissipate heat. The footprint of that NUC is also quite large so nothing pocketable or that can be carried in a man purse. Connecting a display would be a real pain in the butt because an external monitor requires additional power so there should be two batteries and two separte circuits. Too much hassle in my opinion.
What I would use instead if I wanted a modern UMPC would be this LattePanda Board that works with 5V and 2.4A chargers so it's stupid easy to find abattery pack to power it up, has a display connector so that's sorted out too, thermals are not an issue since it's using an Atom CPU and the size is almost like a Raspberry board so can be managed in really tight enclosures (maybe even mod it disconnecting the USB ports and rerouting them elsewhere to make it even thinner).
Well no, I didn't see any kit like that for the LattePanda board really. If you want DIY a notebook out of an expensive NUC, risking to break it might aswell buy a notebook and call it the day.
Is there a netbook with the same processor and pretty complete I/O layout? I know people have been using a Razer Core with a NUC as well for GPU performance
I thought we were talking about UMPC not Netbooks. Also I wouldn't trust anyone but a genious in electronic works to make such a device. To be honest I don't see the point of having something that could burn in your hands, have a terrible battery life and thick like a brick.
The main point for me anyways is to have as full a desktop PC as possible, in a small package, the NUC does a good job of that although of course it's expensive
And it doesn't have to be that complex, probably just the battery I don't mean like attaching everything directly they do make 7" HDMI or USB powered displays, just wish more existed
here's a random super expensive one with a 480p resolution, no idea why anyone would buy it though
- - I'd just stick everything to the NUC with some velcro
Oooh I thought you wanted to do something a lot fancier that velcro everything onto the thing. If I had time and money to spend I would try to do something like the old UMPCs with touchscreens, sliding keyboard and stuff like that. I think it would be pretty cool made it that way, at least in my opinion. Also it's a pretty workable machine something with a new Atom Z processor.
Everything, mostly USB ports, and ya I could buy one of those Pluggables docks that are awesome, but I'd rather have the performance of the i7, could potentially use it to emulate PS2 or Wii/Gamecube games