Ballmer: The Slates Are Coming

[Christopher Chan]

On Tuesday, July 13, 2010 03:45 PM, Michael Haney wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Christopher Chan
> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>  wrote:
>> On Tuesday, July 13, 2010 08:43 AM, Fred A. Miller wrote:
>>> For a number of reasons, I don't agree that tablets will replace PCs.
>>
>> Nor do I agree that PCs will become irrelevant and be replaced by the cloud.
>>
>> Let's wait and see.
>>
>
> I see something more like the Private Cloud than using something out
> on the Internet.  My vision of the future is far more attainable right
> now.  Users would connect to a powerful central computer in the home
> that is connected to the Internet.  This computer can run
> sophisticated games, play movies, play music,browse the web and grab
> emails simultaneously for multiple users.  There's only one central
> computer in the house to manage and update.  The family connects using
> whatever they want, be it a graphical terminal that gives them a
> desktop and provides ports for connecting devices like a webcam, a
> digital camera, game controllers and etc, a tablet for web browsing,
> or anything else you might imagine.  These connections can be wired or
> wireless.  For wired connections we're talking FAST optical fiber
> networks, and for wireless we're talking about something beyond the
> 802.11n standard we have now.

FAST optical fiber? Like what? 10Gbit? Seriously? Maybe when costs come 
down...and I mean really come down.


>
> I see this possibly happening in about 10 years, but its somewhat
> achievable right now to a limited degree.  The technology isn't quite
> there yet to make this work as I described it above.
>

So 10Gbit ain't good enough for you?