Is that a laptop in your pocket?

Expert notes that by 2010, smartphones will likely have eight times the CPU power they do now, rendering the bulky laptop obsolete
By Sharon Machlis, June 25, 2008

Your laptop is likely to soon go the way of 5.25-in. floppy disks, made obsolete by smaller, more useful technology: the smart phone. Based on current trends for low-power chips used in devices like cell phones and iPods , we're likely to see eight times the CPU power in handheld devices by 2010 that we have today, computer architecture enthusiast Adrian Cockcroft told the Usenix '08 technical conference this afternoon. "I wouldn't need a laptop if I had that kind of performance," said Cockcroft, formerly a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems who now works for Netflix and is a member of the Homebrew Mobile Club that designs open-source mobile phones. Instead, Cockcroft envisions an always-on device that can connect wirelessly (and seamlessly) to your car while you're driving, a desktop monitor and keyboard when you're working, and other devices such as a projection system at meetings or a 3-D portable display, no matter where you are.

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