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Laptop computers now outsell desktops in stores; for the majority of consumers, the smaller devices serve perfectly well as their main computer. That would have been hard to imagine back in the mid Eighties, when IBM and Apple introduced their first primitive laptops, each weighing in at about twelve pounds. And for long after that, laptops remained either much less functional or much more expensive than the dominant desktops. But now, twenty years later, the laptop has truly become the "desktop replacement."A decade or two from now, will there be a laptop replacement? Will an even smaller, more mobile device — perhaps something the size of today’s smartphone — replace the laptop in the lives of consumers? While it’s once again hard to imagine, in fact much of the technology already exists to make it so.
For starters, there is one very obvious problem: the keyboard. As any smartphone owner knows, keyboards keep shrinking — but fingers do not. Typing on a tiny keypad is no way to write even the shortest memo. What will replace the laptop? - The Practical Futurist - MSNBC.com Linked by LT Hacker
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