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Thursday, March 08, 2007

Can We Build The Perfect Computer Online?

An Online Collaboration - Community Computer Optimization Project

For a long time I thought it would be good to have a long and active thread in which participants would collectively build the "perfect computer" by adding one idea, suggestion, fix, etc. at a time with the intent to make computers work faster and smarter while remaining cost-effective, fun and customizable.


We all have our gripes about computers (especially if you have to use Windows, which most of us do - sorry Bill, but love the work you're doing in Africa), and I have always wondered what a list of features would look like if we (the Internet community) listed not just our pet peeves about computers, but how we would make a particular change.

At the same time this would be a continual list of the features of the "perfect computer" especially if you recommend fix to the problem you list. A fix suggestion is not necessary, but for the many brainiacs out there, especially programmers, they may have a solution just not the time or resources to get to that solution. That's where others could potentially step in.

If anyone out there has a known solution to any of the problems listed, please contribute it and prefix with label KNOWN FIX.

Please use the Comments section to add your own. You do not have to registered or sign up for anything to leave a comment. Takes less than a minute.

So, to get the ball rolling, I'll start:

PROBLEM: Data loss. When Windows freezes and crashes and you lose something that you were working on, unless you have the latest, greatest (and expensive) MS software, whatever you were working that wasn't saved is gone. We've all had this happen. But it doesn't have to happened.

POSSIBLE FIX: Ideally, the best fix would be to not have crashes at all, but Windows hasn't been able to correct this common problem every since Windows 3.1 came out more than a decade ago. Maybe to fix the data loss problem, Microsoft could create a low- memory utility that could keep hidden clipboards of everything you are working on so that when you reboot you can recover ALL of your data in whatever state it was when it was lost. I do not know if there is an add-on or if Windows Vista corrects this common annoyance.



Anyone?

LONG TERM RESULT: A blissful experience for all computer users who have ever suffered from crashes that result in data loss. It really doesn't have to happen and I cannot understand why Microsoft does not have a system-wide recovery feature (such as Word has).



Please use the Comments button now to add your own computer annoyance (can include Apple too), possible or known fix and long term result, plus whatever relevant photos, links or videos may be of additional help.





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