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This article makes me wonder if, for power users, someday there will be an iphone sized device that devotes its entire form factor to performance. That is, it
by cantankerous 14y ago
This article makes me wonder if, for power users, someday there will be an iphone sized device that devotes its entire form factor to performance. That is, it goes without a screen, packs a ton of ram and cpu power for "general purpose" computing, and you can put it in your pocket and carry it around. When you get to work you can just plop it in your "workstation" and it will use monitors, keyboard, whatever as interface devices. I guess anything's possible. Now that I write this, I feel like it's sorta already happened, though I can't fit a Mac Mini in my biggest of cargo short pockets.
- fredley 14y agoThis is a feasible model, but that's not the way the market is going. Nobody is either making the devices or the docking stations, or even really trying. What we are seeing is a move towards real thin-client. I carry around a screen, with a battery to power it. This screen essentially gets everything done for it on some remote server, very little computing happens locally. The problem for power users is having a remote service connected to the screen that's as open and hackable as a desktop system, and having a way to input data to the screen as easily as with a keyboard and mouse.
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