The thing is, computers are pretty cheap. And you still need electronics to turn your phone into a laptop or a desktop, which might contain mini embedded compu

The thing is, computers are pretty cheap. And you still need electronics to turn your phone into a laptop or a desktop, which might contain mini embedded computers themselves. Would it really be that much cheaper or even simpler? (Forgetting my nerd-type need to run a Plex server and so on.) Like, with TVs. Like a lot of people I want something more like a display, than a crappy computer running a crappy operating systems, since I use my own set-top box and such. But I don't think the parts needed to turn a TV into a crappy Android computer are really all that expensive. (Also "thin clients" are often just decent computers themselves!) All that being said I personally like the idea of having a giant house supercomputer like the one in Enterprise, with various tablets and such just interfaces to that one single computer.