[Swordmaker]

I'm looking forward to the day when every device uses wireless to communicate with other devices.

Apple is almost completely there. The standard iMac keyboard and magic mouse are both Bluetooth my network is WIFI and my printer is WIFI. As is my AppleTV The only cable that comes to the computer is the power cord and a FireWire connection to my backup drive. If I connect my drive to the WIFI router by USB even that cable could be deleted from my desk. In other word, it's even better than this, now, no keyboard or mouse cable:

[roadcat]

Yea, Apple is almost completely there with wireless. Although I have a MagicMouse I still prefer the trackpad for my Mac. My printer and fax are wireless, and I have a network hard drive on my wifi router that all my computers can share wirelessly. My iPad has OS 4.1, but I can’t do wireless printing with it until I patch it (hope Apple resolves patent issues).

But wires serve a need at the moment. Wired Internet is faster when I’m doing big dumps of data. And my backups are on eSata wire connected external hard drives, much faster than other options.

[wintertime]

I could live with that!

[USNBandit]

Another nice part is that it comes out of the box like that. I pulled mine out of the box, set it on the desk, plugged in the power and network cable, pulled the keyboard and mouse out and turned the system on. That took less time than it takes to boot up a PC.

Back in 97 things were different. My roommate on USS Independence had a Mac and a new printer. He spent the entire cruise trying to get the two to work together. All the printer would do was run the paper through putting a slight bend in it. We would heckle him about his brand new paper bender.