The Computer You Want Is A Brick (Tech Thursday)

Many moons ago, before laptops were practical; there was a company that made a computer called "The Brick". I was reminded of this when I was listening to TWiT a couple of weeks ago. The Brick was a small system unit that you carried with you. At work and at home you would have a keyboard, mouse, and monitor you would plug into it. The idea was to have one computer you carried with you that would have the power of a desktop.

My dream computer is like The Brick but better. Maybe it could be called the iPC.

The iPC would be about the size of an iPhone. The mobile phones of today have much more power than the computers of yesterday. It is likely that in a few years, mobile phones could be as powerful as today's laptops.

The iPC would wirelessly dock. Toshiba already has wireless docking available for its high end laptops. The iPC would wirelessly dock at home or at work or wherever else I had access to a full size keyboard and monitor.

The iPC would have universal connectivity. It would be able to connect by Wi-Fi, EVDO, and Ethernet.

The iPC would be my phone too.

Oh yeah, and I'd like to have two of them that automatically synced so if one failed I could just pick up the other one and keep going.

Imagine how cool it would be to carry around your only computer that you used on the go, at work, and at home. Would you like to own a device like that?

What's your dream computer look like?

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Comments

[Ricky Spears]

This is pretty similar to my "Dream Machine" too. I've always wanted one device about the size of a Palm TX, or iPhone with a nice screen like those devices. It would also have the computing power of a desktop (RAM, Speed, storage) and always-on Internet. I hadn't really thought about it connecting to wirelessly to other devices, but I saw it docking into them.

You could dock it into a "Tablet" to have a full-size touch screen, or dock it into another station with multiple monitors and a keyboard.

For it to be a phone and digital camera / video camera too would just be icing on the cake!

[Craig Huggart]

Ricky:

Thanks for reading.

I like your ideas.

I'm ready to buy your dream machine today! :)

Craig