The Morning After: Dell’s modular laptop concept can be taken apart in seconds | Engadget

With no cables or screws involved, Dell’s latest Concept Luna is very convincing. It’s a laptop that you can take apart in about 30 seconds, with just the installation tool. And we’re talking about replacing the entire keyboard, processor, or screen because it’s completely modular.

When you put it all together, the new Concept Luna looks and feels like a typical Dell laptop (more Latitude than skinny XPS, to be clear). The new Luna laptop also has room for a CPU fan, to house more powerful processors. Once a part is replaced, it takes longer to boot because, reasonably, it has to go through multiple tests to make sure each part works as it should.

We’ve seen modular technology for PCs and even smartphones come and go, but can Dell make that stick? The ability to replace components in, say, an army of enterprise laptops for a company can result in huge savings for both the environment and the company’s bottom line.

– Matt Smith

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