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For a while now, the smart money has been on the idea of pervasive computing eventually superseding our present model of having a PC with which we interact. Everything will be networked, everything will have a user interface, and gone will be the beige box under the desk.
Meanwhile, there's still quite a few years of transition to come, but that doesn't mean you can't get rid of the big beige box. This is a complete miniature PC that plugs directly into a power outlet and has a handful of USB ports for your keyboard, mouse, peripherals, and so on, audio in and out, and an analog video connector.
It's a little underpowered compared to your vanilla tower configuration -- only 128MB of RAM in this model, and it only runs Windows CE -- but for your grandma who wants to surf the web and send e-mail it's probably more than adequate. I would expect future models to incorporate much bigger storage using flash memory, and hopefully some more RAM. I'd like to see something like this pretty much replace the tower in 99% of consumer installations, or even as corporate workstations.
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