The monitor bone is connected to the console bone.
\nThe keyboard bone is connected to the console bone.
\nThe mouse bone is connected to the console bone.
\nThe modem bone is connected to the console bone.
\nHow many bones do you have laying around your house?
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\nHere is more proof that the PC is a boring commodity: New PCs are being sold console-only. After all, there’s no point in buying a new monitor when you have a garage full of them.<\/p>\n
Face it: Your monitor, keyboard, and mouse, are probably all in fine condition. They’re all pretty much standard hardware as well: All USB or DVI or some other common computer connector.<\/p>\n
All you need for a new computer system any more is the console. In fact, that’s how I’ve updated my last few PCS: I unplug the keyboard, mouse, monitor, network cable, and the external backup drive. The old console is whisked away, the new one perches in its place.<\/p>\n
After reconnecting all the cables, the hardware setup is done. You spend a few minutes reconfiguring your computer software, restoring files from the backup, or maybe migrating your programs with some migration tool. You’re done.<\/p>\n
Years ago I predicted a similar type of setup to what we have today, though I was a little more extreme in what would be a peripheral and what would be in the console.<\/p>\n
I’ve long predicted that the computer of the future would be a box about the size of a typical hardback book: It would have a power button and then loads of ports. You’d connect your hard drive, monitor, keyboard, mouse, network, and other cables to the teensy, book-sized console. Your computer was instantly set up.<\/p>\n
Yeah, like the Mac Mini.<\/p>\n
Similar to that configuration is the Motorola Atrix phone, which comes with the Lapdock.<\/p>\n
Sure, the Lapdock is just a phone dock, but the it looks like a laptop computer and gives your phone’s hardware a good-sized keyboard and screen.<\/p>\n
Lamentably, the Atrix isn’t taking off, probably because the Lapdock accessory itself is more expensive than your typical netbook PC. But that can change in the future.<\/p>\n
As people move away from PCs, and toward phones and tablets as the center of their digital life, you’ll see the replaceable console get smaller and smaller. It may even turn into your phone. Seriously! Be honest: Do most people really need a full-sized computer any more?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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