I always hate the need to switch/synchronize between my home/work and portable computer set-ups. But there’s nothing I can do about it.

When I’m on the road, portability takes the front seat and when I’m at home, I want to have the biggest/baddest/most powerful set-up I can afford.

So I’m bound to suffer through the process of synchronizing several different computing setups, to make things work…

Unless Apple goes on and makes a real product from the idea of merging the iMac and MacBook into a single package:

Described in a patent application called “Integrated monitor and docking station“, the gist of the idea is to turn the big iMac display/box into a docking station for the MacBook portable computer.

Your dockable ultraportable MacBook has everything you need to use it on the road. Then, when you get home, just slide it into the opening in the display, and you get a full featured, big screen iMac.

With all the additional goodies that the big iMac box can hold. Like fast terabyte sized, power hungry hard drives, more RAM and VRAM, faster graphics, more ports for peripherals and many other cool things.