Does this exist? Seems like it ought, or at least somebody is thinking about it or working on it.

I've replaced my laptop, as it was stolen, with a 12" powerbook and a 20" screen. I decided to sacrifice a little speed for more screen and portability. So far it seems like a fair trade. It has, though, exposed a bit a of a hole in the mac market that I think my good friends at apple have the guns to fill.

Somewhere in the middlin' days of laptops/notebooks/portables, docks and port replicators were a popular thing. I had one for a while that would sit down on top of a cd drive and some cables. That's all well and good but these days doesn't amount to much. My external hard drive plugs in my screen today.

What I want is a dock that actually does something for me. When I drop my powerbook into it, the dock should automatically wake up and some bios like functionality should notify the powerbook to begin a raid rebuild/synch with the dock's one or more drives. At the same time the kernel should be made aware of the additional one to many cpus and gpus contained in the dock.

That would be okay, I reckon.