Wireless power for notebooks

Last December, a small but significant eventuality came to pass in the world of computers when laptops outsold desktops for the first time ever, according to Examiner.com.

During the third quarter of 2008, notebook PC shipments rose nearly 40% compared with the same quarter in 2007 to reach 38.6 million units. Desktop PC shipments were down 1.3% during Q3 to 38.5 million, according to an article from eWeek.

This converse trend for laptops and desktops is expected to continue, according to industry experts. Analysts at IDC believe notebooks will represent more than half of all client PCs by 2011.

After notebooks got the budget treatment and turned into cheap, simple netbooks, the same thing is happening to desktops, such as the new all-in-one from MSI, reports techradar.

The 18.5-inch Wind NetOn AP1900 has just been officially released by MSI a month after it first appeared at CES, and it looks every inch the contender.

Perhaps the most impressive feature of the AP1900 is its size - just 35mm deep and weighing 4kg.

Very few business models are based upon asking the competition to copy your products, but the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) foundation has now done exactly that, and sees it as a path to success, according to tech.blorge.

Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the OLPC foundation, said its goal of putting a laptop in the hands of every child would be best served if the foundation produces something that everyone else copies, according to a CNET article.

This copying would allow the idea to spread, bringing the foundation closer to its goals.