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Portable Computing to Replace Desktops
Filed in archive Mobile Technologies by Editor on March 21, 2007
Portable Computing to Replace Desktops
According to IDC, laptops will replace desktops as the dominant "large" computing platform by 2011. To quote the BBC story about the new forecast:

"The gradual shift away from fixed machines may reflect the needs of an increasingly mobile workforce and the ubiquity of wireless networks."


Surely nothing new there, but the falling cost of laptops, better design, and the spread of wireless networking (first WLAN, now WiMax and flavors beyond) are changing where and how we compute and communicate to be sure.

Nokia, for one, is putting some of its Marbles on the evolution of the tablet computer, a topic I have digressed on here before. They recently stopped round Om Malik's shack to talk up the future prospects of tablet computing, and seem to be getting it more right as they iterate designs and technology. The N800 seems that much more user-friendly than the 770, if smaller. Lots of prototypes of smartphone/tablet/laptop designs are making the rounds, and one could argue that devices such as Blackberries and Hiptops are pointing the future directions of tablety-laptop computing.

The question is, how fast and how soon will this category develop? The speed with which consumers have adopted smartphones for personal use in the US accelerates the timeline a little, for my money. Outside the US, evolution seems to be tracking more toward multimedia players with rich communication capabilities. But, who said evolution was a straight line?

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