Okay so is this one of those "We all had the same Eureka idea within a week of each other" sort of situations, or?...

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=23704

The concept isn't EXACTLY the same, but if you follow your discussions about a "docking station with it's own processing power/etc" you're ending up in the exact same boat as what I was talking about... a companion device that's not quite a docking station, not quite a standalone machine, but sort of halfway inbetween. Lots of discussions have been going on around the idea (Tex even started talking about another possible evolution into a portable gaming server:
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=23727), with everything from docking type of setup to something like hardware to support that old NoBounds concept. Anyways, lots of feasability and implementation discussions happening all over the boards, just find it interesting that they all seem to have crept up at the same sort of time.