The BIG idea (or the very useless one)

A cool (if not obscure and obsolete) idea for unibody macbooks… or any laptop really

Flashback to 2010, and you’ve just unwrapped the coolest MacBook Pro on the block. Everything seems perfect, except for a couple of missing ports you really wanted to have and the macOS vibe not quite aligning with your style. The solution? Enter the wild concept of creating a dock with another laptop embedded—a seemingly absurd idea that required a dash of creativity and some oddly specific circumstances for even me to justify.

If you’ve followed my tech escapades in previous posts on reddit or on here, you know I have a knack for making my MacBook dance to the tune of various operating systems, just for the fun of it. Now, imagine a scenario where you crave the functionality, I/O, and OS of another laptop without the partitioning headaches or file system acrobatics. Picture a sleek dock seamlessly attached to the bottom of your MacBook, connecting through a couple of wires (or going full DIY for a direct connection not unlike the thinkpads of yesteryear) and drawing power from the same battery.

This fantastical hybrid not only shares the same screen and I/O capabilities but also taps into the existing features of the laptop you’ve transformed into a dock. Imagine the convenience of effortlessly switching between operating systems using rEFInd as a startup menu, all neatly integrated into the MacBook’s workflow.

Now, the burning question: Is a laptop dock containing a separate laptop cool or just downright useless? In my opinion, it’s a stroke of genius— but only in certain cases. Not everyone needs or wants a franken-dock that merges the best of two laptops. If your a beta tester or even a game dev this may be the idea of the century… if your an office worker or a contractor this might be completely useless to you.

In a TL;DR nutshell: Picture a laptop dock that houses a separate laptop, seamlessly integrated with your MacBook Pro.