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On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:07 PM, <markw at mohawksoft.com> wrote: > My friends and I were arguing about what the future holds for computers. I > think we all agree that the desktop is dead, but there is some > disagreement as to the fate of the laptop. Does anyone think that this is > an interesting discussion? Yes. Why do you think the desktop is dead? For that matter, why do you think the laptop is dead? > A "yet to be filled" niche will become a new must-have home device, It > will be a cross between a set-top box and a file server. What do you mean by a set-top box? I think "the cloud" [sic] will stick around as a useful abstraction tool, but like with all buzzword-ised technologies it will eventually become just another thing you use when the solution it offers is appropriate to the problem you have. -Dan
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