Right. My workday basically starts fishing my laptop out of my bag and plugging in all the stuff so I have a decent keyboard, mouse and monitor. Why shouldn't my PC just be my phone?
I actually have everything I need for most of my work on my phone: several reasonable Office productivity softwares (including the official Office mobile), a tabbed terminal window with ssh, a browser.
My phone has 3d acceleration, 3GB of RAM, 32GB of storage (with an sd card slot so I could bump it up). The resolution it operates at 1080x1920 or something ridiculous and more than sufficient for desktop needs.
It has a usb port I can hook up to a hub for keyboard and mouse and it supports MHL so I can mirror the screen on a decent monitor.
Hell, if I stick under my hand it's a decent touchpad interface and my Note 3 even has pen input so I could use it as an "artist tablet".
The problem is of course not hardware, but software. The hardware is more than sufficient, the apps are functionally capable, but they lack the right kind of UI metaphor to make it work as a desktop.
Why do you take your laptop home with you? Why not just leave it plugged in at work (or get a workstation with more power for less money)? Surely you can ssh (or vpn) in if you need to work from home?
We have a crazy corporate security plan, everything's encrypted, limited out-to-in network access etc. Most of the major systems are only accessible from your internally assigned IP, etc. VPN only auths from our issued computers, servers only auth from those computers etc.
It's all pretty seamless from our issued computers, but it's a pain inducing minefield trying to do anything outside of that.
It's just a rMBP, so it's not like I'm huffing around a 12lb Dell monster or anything. But it seems kind of pointless when the computer in my pocket is good enough technologically for most things.
I actually have everything I need for most of my work on my phone: several reasonable Office productivity softwares (including the official Office mobile), a tabbed terminal window with ssh, a browser.
My phone has 3d acceleration, 3GB of RAM, 32GB of storage (with an sd card slot so I could bump it up). The resolution it operates at 1080x1920 or something ridiculous and more than sufficient for desktop needs.
It has a usb port I can hook up to a hub for keyboard and mouse and it supports MHL so I can mirror the screen on a decent monitor.
Hell, if I stick under my hand it's a decent touchpad interface and my Note 3 even has pen input so I could use it as an "artist tablet".
The problem is of course not hardware, but software. The hardware is more than sufficient, the apps are functionally capable, but they lack the right kind of UI metaphor to make it work as a desktop.
It's so close, but somehow so far.