The computer of tomorrow

You already hold it in the hand, its power will multiply and placed in a dock, it can connect to all devices.

For most users, especially those of the Internet, the increasing power of mobile units is becoming sufficient to render the PC useless.

The CPU will be a smartphone or tablet and insertion into the dock connects to a large screen and other devices normally connected to a PC.

The computer of the future.

As shown in the diagram, we will use a large screen, keyboard and mouse to work comfortably. The cell phone connects wirelessly to a camera or video recorder according to a Wi-Fi or Bluetooth protocol. You can also print directly throughta wireless transmission, that printers already have.
The storage will be provided by a hard disk connected to the dock or memory cards directly inserted into it.

Motorola Atrix

It is already developing this concept in two directions: the first corresponds to the diagram above, the second is to plug a smartphone into a notebook with a keyboard and screen, but devoid of CPU and memory.

The notebook in turn can be connected to all devices of a PC ...

This model is equipped with Android but when it is inserted into a dock, it loads the WebTop environment more suitable for local use.
This gives access to the file system and includes the Nautilus file manager for Linux. Other Linux software are also added.

The PC are just becoming machines dedicated to gamers, graphic designers and developers ... which will connect to the same dock as the smartphone!

Windows 7 on smartphones?

It's possible. The F-07C Fujistsu offers a double operating system Symbian and Windows 7 (and not Windows Phone). Equipped with a keyboard, it allows to use Office and Internet Explorer 9 which are included in the system.
The Atom processor and 1 GB memory seem sufficient to operate the software. Can be connected directly to the smartphone an external keyboard and mouse through the USB connector, and a screen. Autonomy in Windows mode is two hours.

A video projector to replace the monitor

It's not foresight, but already a reality. Galaxy Beam models of Samsung are equipped with a pico projector with an output of 15 lumens and can display an image of 50 inches.

This does not really allows making graphics on a big screen but is suitable for watch videos or games. The videos that can be seen on Youtube shows a somewhat blurred image. To get an image similar to that of a movie theater, 2000 lumens would be needed, and this permits larger dimensions. Business projectors do not have a resolution greater than that of a smarphone, they just offer a larger and better image.

Soon the Smartbook

This is a term coined by the founder Qualcomm. To allow manufacturing ultra-light laptops, much more than ultrabooks, or the Mac Air, it finalizes the design of an ARM processor with four cores, powerful enough to run Windows 8. The Snapdragon S4 will replace Intel processors, a revolution in the world of laptops!
The processor contains a chipset sufficient for HD video and a modem. It will run games on Windows 8.
The next step would be to move to a ultra-compact version of PC with an ARM processor. If the mobile has not already replaced it...

Update - February 22, 2012

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