21st January 2008, 12:55 AM
That is one important thing to consider isn't it? Power is the big issue holding back laptops from outright replacing desktops entirely. After all aside from scaling down the tech, which hardware designers have become very good at, there's the power consumption issue. If that's not as much of a barrier, they'll scale it down all the quicker at the expense of a bigger drain on energy. At the same time, I'm sure that once people get that taste of 20 hour laptop life they won't want to go back. They'll still need to balance that.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)