Regular laptop users will sometimes set up a workstation with all the peripherals they need at one location and use the laptop without them everywhere else. Corporate users have also had to face the reality that the same portable units that empower their staff and enhance their mobility also make it easy for the computers to be stolen in circumstances where a desktop could hardly be lifted. Security cables, sonic alarms and modem based tracking systems are just some of the security systems available for laptops which are considered at risk. The idea of portable computing is heating up the market place. But current laptop designs are not standing still.
New models are ever more compact and powerful.
In an ideal world, we will be able to tap into a computer system wherever we need to. Laptop systems are just one more step on the road to that inevitable goal.