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[Fyron]

Certainly there would be an upgrade cycle, but it would be the cycle of the desktop rather than the laptop. Laptop upgrades typically require whole machines. You can do a little bit with PCMCIA cards, but its nothing compared to the piece-meal upgrading you can do with desktops.

You would do mouse and keyboard with a mouse and keyboard. They would either be wired to the screen, or wireless in their own rights. TFT on-screen keyboards are terrible, terrible input devices that shouldn't be considered.

You could make the screen have a PCMCIA card slot for the wireless adapter, making it updatable too. 0 need to stick with obsolete wireless tech in that case. Monitors can last a long, long time.

[Will]

Imperator Fyron said:
3d games don't do much at all with the win32 api though...

Hence my saying that Remote Desktop would have similar performance to streaming video or a VNC connection when you're using a 3d game. In that case, all three are essentially doing the same thing (grab screen image, optionally compress, send), the only differences are in how the image data is sent.