Craob Teases a 7mm-Thick Portless Laptop

We're all waiting for Apple to show courage again and remove the remaining port on the iPhone, but one company has already decided to do that for its laptop.

Craob may not be a well-known name in the computing world, but the Craob X laptop could quickly make it one if it ever gets beyond the concept stage. The X has two features that instantly make it stand out from the competition: a complete lack of external ports and a thickness of just 7mm. For reference, the MacBook Air is 16mm thick.

The Craob website demosntrates how charging this portless ultrabook would be achieved using a wireless charger that magnetically attaches to the back of the display. The charger also doubles as a port hub, offering access to USB-C, USB-A, and Thunderbolt ports, as well as a headphone jack and SD card slot.

Inside the laptop you'll find up to a 12th-gen Intel Core i7-1280P processor with Intel Iris Xe GPU, up to 32GB of LPDDR5 RAM, and up to a 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD. The display is a 4K 13.3-inch panel, and Intel Wi-Fi 6E handles wireless communication.

As Liliputing points out, the Craob X looks to be just a concept at the moment. There's no pricing details, it's listed as “coming soon,” and all the photos look like renders rather than a manufactured and working laptop. Even so, it raises the question of where future laptop designs are heading and if this is what consumers actually want.