With the recent discussions taking place regarding the future of Nokia and MeeGo I've been thinking about a possible direction that Nokia and Intel can take which would ultimately see them catching up with the likes of iOS and Android, and blowing them out of the water well and truly.

Rekindling my passion for the N900 I've been amazed at the usability of full blown desktop applications like Open Office through Easy Debian, or using the desktop version of jDownloader thanks to ARM Java SDK. Only two things stop using such applications to replace the use of a laptop, screen real estate and raw computing power. Taking this idea forward, I'm struggling to see why with the right hardware a move to desktop applications/distro cannot be made? A 4-5” high precision resistive, high resolution display would handle displaying desktop applications possibly with some dedicated GPU with ease and running a x86 Intel 1.5GHz processor with 1GB of dedicated RAM would run a Linux distro no problem. This would render the argument that Nokia has no mobile applications invalid and negate the need for massive mobile platform development. Using something like Ubuntu Netbook Edition, this would leave Nokia building a strong communications layer for telephony, messaging and communications which they have historical excelled at along with building top notch hardware. Straight away we would have the most useful and powerful repository of software!

What do you guys think, am I being too naïve in my thinking?