Whatever happened to our hobby?

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I agree with that. After several years of only using laptops I'm about to get a large screen and keyboard hooked up at home, exactly because I'm more productive on a large screen. At work, I do use a laptop, but connected to a big screen and separate keyboard. I think that's essential for serious use. But quite soon it hopefully won't require the big bulky separate box any more.

I particularly look forward to getting to a point where I have all my data everywhere (even when the network isn't available)



Yes. Want it. Even though I don't really have any uses for it (though perhaps someone will port AROS to it...). It'll be fun to tinker with, though my phone has more memory and a faster ARM chip already

AROS already has an ARM build... I plan to buy one of these and use it as my main AROS machine too

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As small as they are, I wonder how much of a stretch it would be to just start putting commodity Arm 1.1ghz dual core CPUs and a build of android - basically a cell phone - inside any and all TVs these days?

Just pop it in there in and amongst all the other circuitry, stick an SD slot on the side of the TV for folks who want more storage...bam, Mr. and Mrs. Livingroom can phone up Jane and Johnny while they're at the university, play Angry Birds, look at photos, etc. all on the TV, no screwing around with a dedicated computer.  Just use the remote.

At commodity prices it could hardly cost more than a few bucks to outfit each TV thusly.

(Plus it'd hurt Apple, and I'm all for that.)

Perhaps ironically, you have probably hit upon Apple's strategy... Though they look to be using a small ARM based box