On 23 Aug 2010 at 14:26, Dave McGuire wrote:
...thus illustrating the uneducated public's
widespread notion that,
since technology tends to shrink with development, and laptops are
smaller than most other types of computers, that laptops are the "new"
computers, and anything other than a laptop is obsolete.
In general, the public is still working on the "newer is better"
theory. Why anyone would want to sit at home and type on a laptop
keyboard is beyond me.
But I've seen people ditch their desktop 2GHz P4 system for a new
desktop Core Duo box in the hope that it will make their dialup
connection faster.
--Chuck