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This is the future of mobile computing
Daniel Breslauer 12th Jun 2010
Just make your netbook a 'thin client'-like device that just connects you remotely to your desktop PC. As remote access technologies improve and connectivity improves (like, built-in 3G and soon 4G), this is the ideal way to work. Now all we need is absolute 'native' remote connectivity, where even a video can be directly streamed over the web, and the only thing that matters is bandwith - which will also be provided then. You'll need to deal with hardware integration (integrating the netbook's hardware into the desktop's OS), but I'm sure it can be done. Working like this has numerous advantages: use the full horsepower of your main PC from anywhere you are, access your files from anywhere...
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