>>>I agree that in many cases running splashtop on your Android 21" desktop would be fine. I do it with my ASUS now and with the Hi Res screen I see my 24" monitor exactly the same on the tablet (albeit on a 10" screen) Works really well.
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>>>Just didn't want anyone to be confused that you could actually run Windows apps on an Android.
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>>>That said, I'd like to see what Android as an OS could do on a box with 8-16gb of ram, really fast processors and killer video cards. I don't really know much about what the OS is capable of on a larger platform.
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>>>BTW this ASUS 700 transformer with the docking keyboard is really really nice. Still find it slower than I'd like but as a netbook it is very nice and a lot of fun to work on.
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>>Android is based on Linux, which runs on everything from the Raspberry Pi to supercomputers. While there are currently significant differences ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_%28operating_system%29#Linux ), apparently there is a roadmap to merge them.
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>That sounds like a much greater existential threat to MS than good ol' geeky Linux. Android has consumer standing. Create a desktop that works just like your phone or tablet - only bigger faster better but is truly integrated. MS trying to come the other way from big old bloaty Windows to the phone.
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>I would love to have a big powerful laptop or "grandpa box" that ran Android on steroids with 16gb of ram and serious windowed multi--processing maybe addressing multiple multicore processors.

Hmmm that sounds like a laptop.
Except for cost and "openness".. which MS can deal with any time it wants, what's the difference between Android and Windows?