The first ever truly upgradable laptop has a card up its sleeve

There’s a new NexDock appearing later this year, a shell of a hybrid laptop computer that gets its process brains from either a Windows smartphone, computer board sort of a Raspberry Pi, and with this recent model, support has been added for Intel’s recently detected compute Card.

If you didn’t see it, the compute Card could be a credit card-sized pc board showing off a Kaby Lake processor, over its own memory, storage and wireless connectivity, designed to slot into IoT gadgets like smart fridges, providing associate upgradable brain for the device.

And the new NexDock is solely a shell of a convertible laptop computer, complete with associate HD show, keyboard, touchpad, and interchangeable USB Type-C modules for property – and it currently includes a slot for the compute Card on the aspect.

Simply insert a compute Card and it effectively provides the laptop’s hardware viscous (and more down the road, its associate absolute cinch to upgrade – simply plug a additional powerful card in).

Or as mentioned you'll hook it up to a Windows 10 smartphone and use continuum to supply you with a UI additional appropriate for desktop work on a portable computer .

Intel’s computer-on-a-card is predicted to launch round the middle of the year, once samples of the NexDock can become on the market and a crowdfunding campaign for the latter can kick-off, with accessibility probably due within the second half of 2017.