On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:36:44 -0500, JEDIDIAH wrote:
> On 2006-08-18, chrisv <chrisv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>>Desktop? 5 years? In 5 years not many people will be using desktops.
>>
>> Nonsense. I see zero need for either my work or home PC's to be
>> "portable", and I'm not going to pay a price premium to get a tiny,
>> unexpandable, fragile, wimpy-video'd, small-keyboarded, battery-powered
>> POS.
>>
>> In five years I'll have a 30" widescreen LCD sitting on my desk. There
>> will be a mouse and an ergonomic keyboard in front of it. The computer
>> will be on the floor.
>
> ...the computer might even be embedded into the keyboard or
> just embedded into the 60" widescreen monitor. Take a laptop down to
> it's essentials while removing the keyboard and possibly even the
> optical drive and you don't have much left. It wouldn't have to be
> flimsy either.
Good point, but there will always be disadvantages to putting things into
one box like that. The multi-box setup can be more flexible and
expandable.
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