There have been instances where I have heard people mutter that question aloud. The short answer? It’s coming, we just have to be patient. Since it is such huge shift, we might be moving a little faster than the technology is honestly ready for.

As a computing enthusiast I love to build desktop and server PCs from the ground up. What fun it is matching motherboard, CPU, graphics card, memory, disk drives and other stuff to create my ideal computer every six months or so. I never thought of mobile computers in the same way. I mean, they come to you signed, sealed and delivered. Sure, I’ve upgraded memory or the disk drive on a laptop or notebook, but that’s it. I don’t like forcing my way into those fortresses for fear of breaking something.

Imagine my delight when MSI sent me one of their MS-1029 barebones notebooks to review. Somewhere in the back of my consciousness I knew about these things, but I never really had a chance to touch and mess around with one of them. Within the limits of the notebook’s barebones configuration and form factor, you can actually pick the CPU, memory and disk drive you want to install. Don’t want wireless networking and Bluetooth? Shun those options. Wow! Source: Mobility Guru