When can I buy a laptop with specs similiar to these?

[Thomas Hulon Jackson]

I am a simple man with a simple mind so consider the performance laptop question, (estimated time of arrival?), simply as how performance is directly proportional to power and which with current battery technology limits sez it will never happen unless the lap top is attached to a golf cart.

Seeing the obvious and comparing the lap top to a "dumb" terminal of the 60's mainframe computers it is clear the dumber the better as it reduces the size, owner cost, lost to thief cost, while increasing battery life simplier is the future as all that is really needed in a lap top is screen, net card, keyboard, mouse, mike, cd disk drive and camera and those input/output devices (300 dollars max) connect to a supercomputer via PC anywhere software or high speed cable with all processing done by the at home or office super computer like so.

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[-Job-]

I agree that it's much easier to have a device that has only an internet connection which it uses to connect to a server and establish a remote session. The only bottleneck will be the connection speed but with our current technology it would certainly be acceptable. One idea would be to have superservers available everywhere, the closest one being the server of choice. The advantages of this are fantastic in my opinion.

 

[Anttech]

I agree that it's much easier to have a device that has only an internet connection which it uses to connect to a server and establish a remote session. The only bottleneck will be the connection speed but with our current technology it would certainly be acceptable. One idea would be to have superservers available everywhere, the closest one being the server of choice. The advantages of this are fantastic in my opinion.

hmm maybe in an enterprise, but for a dispersed network like the internet. I can't see how anyone would want to do that. Plus there is the security aspect, who would control these servers?

I think the bottleneck would be the lag involved, which is going to happen when you separate geographically your terminal from the server that will server your applications. If its setup badly you will have a lot of data sent back and forth then ou would need to up your bandwidth. Adding more Bandwidth won't solve any lag problems.. typically

 

[Nothing000]

That computer would be neat. I have a feeling that the computer you described will be on the market Quarter 2 2006. Probably on April 17th at around 3:23 pm eastern time.

 

[Livingod]

I'm really counting on microprocessors, they're small and fast and you can a couple of thousand in a laptop. It will most likely be pretty damn fast, but might take long to develop

 

[-Job-]

I think i heard a while back that companies were going in the direction of having multiple CPUs in a single chip. This would make it a lot easier, if they can keep the interface the same, since we wouldn't need a more expensive motherboard that supports multiple processors.