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The PC as we know it is changing.
We now get more of our applications from the web. The big ones are email, search, news, online purchases, banking. Some of these applications are replacing things we did not the phone, or by brick and morter, not old desktop applications. But, Sun, Google, and others are working full time on web applications. The big thing they need to enable is applications caching, so that the online applications persist when you disconnect from the web, but files are synchronized when you log back in. Then, the new web applications would appear like more traditional applications. For that matter, they could deliver OpenOffice as a web application, though it would be just the standard version, modified to only save files where they are synchronized online. Updates would be automatic. And, if your hard drive dies, just buy a new one, install Windows (or Linux), go to your service provider, and your applications and files will be downloaded automatically. For those that don't make their life out of computers, this would be great.

Oh, I happen to agree that at a minimum, we want a 12 inch screen, keyboard, and mouse. Maybe they could plug into a cell phone, but we want them.
Posted by: DonnieBoy   Posted on: 09/24/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Fool talks, nobody listens...  Mike Cox | 09/23/05
Fool talks, nobody listens...hah!  White_Tech_Guy | 09/23/05
Your MCSEs are exposed  matrixdomain | 09/23/05
Maybe you are just too dead serious  gagnon_pascal@... | 09/24/05
On today's Menu: Flounder  nucrash | 09/25/05
Sun is dreaming  CobraA1 | 09/23/05
Tiny keyboard  3D0G | 09/24/05
The PC as we know it is changing.  DonnieBoy | 09/24/05
Re: The PC as we know it is changing.  CobraA1 | 09/24/05
I agree  darreno1 | 09/25/05
PC's are yesterday because Sun doesn't profit from them  balsover | 09/23/05
No, PCs have a lot of disadvantages. Number one is administration & backup.  DonnieBoy | 09/24/05
PCs are not going away  netrayder | 09/26/05
Network computer are decades old technology  osreinstall | 09/23/05
Voting "No"  IT_User | 09/23/05
But you have to be connected  osreinstall | 09/23/05
Clarification  osreinstall | 09/23/05
True, and that was a problem  IT_User | 09/25/05
It will always be a symbol of freedom  osreinstall | 09/25/05
It is a lot easier to lump a phone and folding keyboard..  B.O.F.H. | 09/23/05
Bah  CobraA1 | 09/23/05
I want my PC to do anything I want.  osreinstall | 09/24/05
The article is about smartphones, not thin clients (NC).  B.O.F.H. | 09/24/05
Whatever Dude  osreinstall | 09/24/05
You don't get it, do you?  B.O.F.H. | 09/24/05
You never have.  osreinstall | 09/24/05
osreinstall, is AutoCAD the only application that you know/use?  B.O.F.H. | 09/24/05
Is receptionist programs the only ones you know about.  osreinstall | 09/24/05
osreinstall, this has nothing to do with the old NCs!  B.O.F.H. | 09/24/05
The article was not very specific  osreinstall | 09/25/05
You are ignoring advancing technology.  DonnieBoy | 09/24/05
You are ignoring retreating prices.  Knorthern Knight | 09/24/05
You are ignoring administration and backup costs.  DonnieBoy | 09/24/05
Technology is advancing there also  CobraA1 | 09/24/05
i agree  netrayder | 09/26/05
what do network cozthat can fit in yourmputer have to do with smartphones?  B.O.F.H. | 09/24/05
Subject line got hammered....  B.O.F.H. | 09/24/05
Schwartz is talking about elimination of the PC  osreinstall | 09/24/05
Taking care of a PC is NOT easy. And they have limited storage and power.  DonnieBoy | 09/24/05
I think you are confused, NC's are gone!  B.O.F.H. | 09/24/05
Maybe for you it isn't.  osreinstall | 09/24/05
There is no bandwidth BOFH.  osreinstall | 09/24/05
The network is getting more reliable and faster and cheaper every day  DonnieBoy | 09/24/05
Tried a few  osreinstall | 09/24/05
osreinstall, do you know how to sue a phone?  B.O.F.H. | 09/24/05
BOFH, Do you know how to tunafish?  osreinstall | 09/24/05
Re: Taking care of a PC is NOT that easy  CobraA1 | 09/25/05
Her new HP laptop has not crashed yet, 3 months and counting.  DonnieBoy | 09/25/05
so cellphone/comps are going to be unreliable  netrayder | 09/26/05
Terminals were very expensive also  osreinstall | 09/24/05
With LTSP, terminals are dirt cheap now, even with new hardware.  DonnieBoy | 09/24/05
Not enough bandwith on LAN for heavy engineering  osreinstall | 09/24/05
LTSP words extremely well for all common applications.  DonnieBoy | 09/25/05
No it doesn't  osreinstall | 09/25/05
Sure.......  tslocum7 | 09/26/05
or leave in the hard drive  netrayder | 09/26/05
That works too  IT_User | 09/26/05
PCs are very expensive  IT_User | 09/25/05
And so is the Mainframe to connect to.  osreinstall | 09/25/05
Mainframe?  IT_User | 09/25/05
Or a cluster  osreinstall | 09/25/05
Sounds reasonable  IT_User | 09/26/05
i've used nc's, they suck  netrayder | 09/26/05
Fit to the situation  IT_User | 09/26/05
You are way wrong  osreinstall | 09/24/05
We will have cached applications. So it all works ofline.  DonnieBoy | 09/24/05
There isn't enough bandwidth period.  osreinstall | 09/24/05
My network connection keeps getting faster and more reliable.  DonnieBoy | 09/24/05
Let me know when you hit 1000 mbs then well talk.  osreinstall | 09/24/05
Search, email, google earch, online ordering, work find with DSL and Cable  DonnieBoy | 09/24/05
You must have stock in Sun only.  osreinstall | 09/24/05
terabytes of online storage  netrayder | 09/26/05
no 404 errors?  netrayder | 09/26/05
He's SOME wrong  IT_User | 09/26/05
He wasn't too technically specific  osreinstall | 09/26/05
What planet do you live on?  JimSatterfieldW | 09/27/05
Betcha Paul Murphy would just love this happy  Mark Miller | 09/24/05
Every NEW TECH always predicted to obliterate the old...  Feldwebel Wolfenstool | 09/24/05
Perhaps  3D0G | 09/24/05
He is referring to smartphones.  B.O.F.H. | 09/24/05
Spreadsheets?  3D0G | 09/24/05
You should look at more phones!  B.O.F.H. | 09/24/05
Point taken  3D0G | 09/25/05
We will have new catagories of applications online, that do NOT work ofline  DonnieBoy | 09/24/05
Which complements more than it negates  CobraA1 | 09/26/05
hear hear  netrayder | 09/26/05
google search taxing your computer?  netrayder | 09/26/05
The MAIN reason that PCs  James Dean_z | 09/24/05
Servers can run on PCs and phones  Casandro | 09/25/05
Businesses are different from individuals  B.O.F.H. | 09/25/05
So Sun is making a priority of the poor people...  Anton Philidor | 09/24/05
Sun is so pathetic  andyhayes1 | 09/24/05
Don't we hear all of this before???  glennhkboy | 09/25/05
Yup.  CobraA1 | 09/25/05
Sun is So Yesterday  John Zern | 09/25/05
Some of it sound, but not Sun  Boot_Agnostic | 09/26/05
Can't sell to Desktops, call them relic's  maddog@... | 09/26/05
I want my stuff on my machine  rmansfield | 09/26/05
SUN is so yesterday!  Protector | 09/26/05
Are they still selling "the network is the computer"?  JonathonDoe | 09/26/05
Heard this before.  tslocum7 | 09/26/05

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