Meet the laptop you'll use in 2015

Re:Meet the laptop you'll use in 2015 by acrylicist on Thursday March 27, 2008 @02:08AM (#147607)

It really needs to be the size of a legal pad, use a stylus, abusable like a legal pad (very durable), WiFi, maybe e-paper for output. Nothing should slide, fold or twist--just a slab of input/computation/output. almost completely sealed, it should easily survive a coffee spill.

bonus points for something like ultravnc support so it can just be an extension of your desktop display.

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Re:Meet the laptop you'll use in 2015 by derefr on Thursday March 27, 2008 @04:59AM (#147660)

> bonus points for something like ultravnc support so it can just be an extension of your desktop display.

I'm waiting for the day when just setting two tablet-like devices near one another makes them into one, larger screen. They could even snap into one another to form one huge, seamless slab. Of course, you'd need something a little more advanced than even remote X server/client sessions to get it to work, because someone might want to "tear off" an application in one corner and take it with them to the bathroom, behind a lead wall for some reason.

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Re:Meet the laptop you'll use in 2015 by TheTarquin on Thursday March 27, 2008 @02:45AM (#147620)

Amen. My hope is that computers will become more and more "unitary", for lack of a better term. That is to say they'll become simpler in use, even while they're becoming more flexible and powerful in effect.

Basically I'm hoping that computers become better tools and not just better computers.

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