what the future of computing might look like

desktops will go the way of ghetto blasters. everyone is going to carry their OS, Applications, and Documents on portable media. This is going to be driven by kids trying to work their way around parental controls. people will boot from the media, do what they need to do, then go. CPU id's will be useless. home computers are going to look more the like of commodore 64's and such. For a lot of us there may not be a "hardrive" as such. Browsing without a hardrive is going to be quite common. Any successfull OS is going to have to handle several binaries. the move by apple to X86, if it's going to happen, will allow people for the first time to fairly test the "flavor" of the PowerPC. It may turn out like the Coke 2 debacle. except apple is not coke.