The future of personal mobile computing
If I may be so bold as to make a prediction on how our mobile computing will be in 3 years
Allow me to start at the time about two or three years ago when the prices of laptops or notebooks became so cheap that even home users opt for the mobile laptops as their main computer over the “traditional” home desktop computers. The once “expensive” mobile computers that commanded more than 3x the price of desktop computer, now has a price slightly higher than a desktop pc. It seems now that only PC gamers who demand fast graphics rendition are the ones who are attached to desktops. (Ahem, Gamers and “practical” persons like me whose desktop computer case and power supply are 5 years old and has seen 6 motherboard upgrades 
Steve Jobs said that the Ipad Tablet is an in-between device between smartphones and notebooks. This is very true , then , now, and maybe for the next 365 days. I refuse to carry an Ipad for it doesn’t fit my productive mobile lifestyle/needs. I still carry a slim plastic document case with a Macbook inside (soon to be replaced with a slimmer and lighter Macbook Air as soon as the MBA with Thunderbolt comes out). From work to social dinners with Ipad wielding friends, my trusty MB is still the productivity “king”. I can do more with a macbook and do things faster on it than on an Ipad. We all carry USB flash drives around to share large files and an Ipad …. you know what I mean.
I foresee that soon, the mighty Tablet, be it IOS or Android will just be a part of a more evolved Laptop and even an extension of our home PC. We now see the start of the integration of the mobile devices in the ASUS Transformer and in the upcoming ASUS PadFone……. I am not a fan of ASUS ever since i shifted from ASUS mobos to Intel Mobos but I think now I have to pay particular attention to what they come up with. ….- and I’m starting to dislike Steve Job’s since he started to put proprietary Hard disk on the current line of Imac. I no longer think that he will die on the cross.
Smartphones now have dual-cores CPU and can easily have multi-cores GPU. I am willing to bet ( and I’m willing to miss all the succeeding pirates and vampire movies if I’m wrong) that in two years at the earliest
1.Our computing power and data will be based on a smart phone (Yes it will have USB)
2. That can be dynamically docked to a dumb tablet with complementing battery (YES with USB Host and ThunderBolt) and a small docking pencil-like BT mic and speaker
3. Which can be in turned linked to keyboard turning it to a laptop computer (with Thunderbolt/LightPeak and YES more USB!d more slice battery
4. And when we get home we link them up via Thunderbolt to a similar device to back-up/syncand combine all CPU resources to have a more powerful Home computer
OS of choice will be ANDROID, but if Steve Jobs can have IOS and LION in harmony on iPhone7 and a similar device as mentioned above, I will still be using OSX (OSXI?) – as long as the SSD HD is not apple proprietry
My next piece of article will be:
“Sure I like all these 3D movies, but I would rather be watching 36D’s (or 36DD’s) up close”