SkribbelKat
Supreme [H]ardness
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Eventually these lightweights are going to displace every larger sections of the x86 marketshare.
I mean ARM's in Cellphones dusted AMD/Intel a long time ago. These lightweights are going to pick up as they become more powerful. Could be not that long before you're desktop is just a docking station for your tablet or smartphone.
Android and iOS are too primitive, though, to replace a laptop/desktop for a lot of people. Not sure they can evolve fast enough. I believe Microsoft is making play for that market with Windows 8.
But Linux is a better contender, especially when the key is low cost. Adding in a cost of a windows license may work on a contract. Not sure it will work on a standalone lightweight.
You're probably right about the displacement of what we currently consider a conventional PC. It boils down to cost in most cases. A PC, as we know it, costs significantly more and, thanks to the advancement of lightweight applications for these platforms, doesn't do a lot of things that can't be done on much less expensive hardware like one of these things.
I'd love to see the phone become the dockable brains for my computing needs. While the current crop of operating systems are indeed lacking some capabilities, most of what's not there are things that people like us might miss, but the rest of society could care less about.
We need more stuff like this to become mainstream so there's greater market competition to drive costs down even further.