I think it's time to bring back the lunchbox PC form factor. A lot of people need the ability to work from various places, but they're not constantly mobile. Th

I think it's time to bring back the lunchbox PC form factor. A lot of people need the ability to work from various places, but they're not constantly mobile. They don't need something they can pick up and toss in a briefcase on a moment's notice, they need something just portable enough that they can use it at the kitchen table and then pack it up for dinnertime, or take to a café and work for a few hours at a table. And most of the time, they're working from home at a desk, and then the compromises we make to create a mobile-form-factor laptop aren't buying them anything. Instead, let's bring back the lunchbox form factor. A mini motherboard with a real desktop processor, a little bit of expansion for a larger graphics card or extra storage, and a full-size keyboard. Since we don't need the front-facing floppy disk slots of the past, we can make the monitor the full width of the front, but have it backing on a more sizable chassis that contains most of the processing power. A really nice webcam, even room for a good condenser mic and better speakers, plus plenty of expansion ports instead of the typical "whatever fits on the knife edge of the razor profile" selection. Think iMac, but smaller and with a keyboard that just snaps or folds into the monitor like a laptop, and with a solid battery so you don't have to plug it in if you don't want to.