Agreed. Plus, that's a computer that you shake and keep in your warm palm all the time... That will need to have a really good cooling system.

Does the iPhone have a really good cooling system?

No, and you'll see lots of pictures online of iPhones that shut themselves down and refuse to do anything until they cool down.

The idea is that there should be. This could be awesome for colleges... Stop buying physical machines and start having students buy their own "mice".

Awesome for the colleges, maybe, but not so much for the students onto whom they'd be pushing the cost.

> Awesome for the colleges, maybe, but not so much for the students onto whom they'd be pushing the cost.

1. This is a political problem, first and foremost.

2. How much it costs depends on what the school does with its network. If it offers cloud storage as part of the tuition (to offset the cost of not having much storage on the little mice) and gives the more computationally-intensive majors access to a compute cluster for the price of tuition (same reason), it could be a nice little setup.

Students would always have most of their files on them all the time, the school could buy more keyboard-laptop pairs than it buys actual computers to reduce the pressure on the public labs, and the mice could be fairly cheap if bought in bulk and resold. (OK, I know, but in theory.)

Is there much difference between that and simply having all students buy a standard notebook computer?

Easier to carry around, fewer parts to break, and it's cheaper for the school to buy a ton of keyboard/monitor pairs to reduce the pressure on the public computer labs.

I mean, all of those arguments can be argued against, but it isn't hard to see some potential up-sides here.

Right, it's my problem with the Intel compute stick, too, only that needs a mouse as well.