NextComputing wants you to take your desktop for a stroll, preferably a brief one

After watching NextComputing dance round the definition of mobile computing for so long , we aren’t all that surprised to determine the firm tease its first suitcase-desktop sporting an internal battery. The headlining promise of 2 to four hours of battery life, however? We’ll take the complete salt shaker, thanks. NextComputing’s half-minute demo shows an unnamed workstation disconnected, unplugged, and lugged off. We aren’t really sure where it’s going, or why it should be left on for the trip, but hey — a desktop with a battery still beats a laptop without one.