@ maxinflixion, I like your ideas and I think the key to getting a N8xx to "dock" to a more powerful computer is to make it more than the current solution of "syncing" but where the N800 is the master boot record/hard drive for the docking stations and more powerful docking cpu picks up the CPU, video, sound, etc. where the N8xx left off. To make it seamless though would be the goal so that you just dock the N800 and its screen pops up on the big screen with the more powerful computer running the show.

I have also heard rumors about laptops getting a video screen mouse pad. What if you applied that to where the "mousepad" (much bigger than current ones) was removable from the laptop and functioned like a N8xx and then when it was docked it was the mousepad / second screen?