How Smart Is Smart?

Your desktop computer is up in the home office, but you'd really rather delete your spam with one eye on the big living-room . Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could run your favorite programs remotely from a slim device you could carry anywhere in the house?
That's more or less the premise behind ViewSonic's Airpanel V110, the first incarnation of the technology Microsoft has dubbed Windows Powered Smart Displays. Smart? For a display, yes, but this isn't a full-fledged computer like the Tablet PCs it will inevitably be confused with. It's basically a dumb 25-centimeter flat-panel color touch screen that weighs a little over a kilogram.
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