One thing I would like in laptop design would be fast SD style cards becoming the 'hard drive' standard, kind of like the guy did in this article:
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/12/how-and-why-i-stopped-buying-new-laptops.html
It would mesh well with the qubes concept of the 'trusted stick' so you can make your hardware stateless.
https://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/state_harmful.pdf
@surfingalot modern hardware has like 20 vectors for persistent state other than the drive
@surfingalot i am pretty sure you can do most of this with external drives and usb sticks
@sneak then I have to deal with dangling usb sticks and drives that perform worse than internal disks and disconnect during inopportune moments not very nice for a mobile device.
@sneak yeah the trusted stick would be v2. I want removable main storage with multiple slots seamless with the body for reasons more than security, for video & photo management reasons + easy upgradability and device swapping.
Going across national borders with a default state card and then downloading a 40GB image of the basic stuff you actually need once done crossing onto another would be awesome. Now it's a bunch of extra work to do so.