2008 is the year marking the fact that more laptops were sold than desktop PC’s.
Combining low weight, a bright screen, high performance and a long batterylife is the ultimate goal for any laptop producer. This has spurred a continuous flow of improvements with impressive results: the latest Apple Macbook uses something like 9 Watt, and there is still some more room to reduce the power requirements according to GigaOm.
mere 9 watts……. it will only be a matter of time before solar cells will be integrated in the casing of the laptop, extending the battery life to unprecedented lenghts.
Given the potential of E-ink or OLED based screens that are well readable in bright light while using very little power on might envision a future where we carry selfsustaining netbooks with us. Through wireless connections we communicate with the infrastructure: “computing clouds” that do the heavy computing stuff and secure storage.
Easier, flexible and efficient use of energy.
