OT Rant: Smaller/thinner laptops. - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

19 May 2000

On May 19, David Vohs wrote:
...
  But in my opinion, I think laptops are made as thin as
they are so you can 
 be lost or stolen easier. If you lose a new laptop, you are probably out 
 $1500 or more! That's why I like older laptops like a Tandy Model 100, 
 Macintosh Portable, etc. because of these reasons:

 1. Large size
 2. *Proper* keyboards (laptop makers, please thake note!)
 3. Phenominal battery lives (see above comment)
 4. If they are lost (nobody would really want to steal an obsolete laptop) 
 you are out maybe $50-150 or so.

 So the newest technology is better, I beg to differ! 
  [Dave stands up, puts on tie, holds up a copy of BusinessWeek]

  "But those ancient computers can't possibly work.  Intel has come
out with something new, therefore everything made prior to that
stops working!  Besides, how will I run the latest copy of Microsoft
WhizBang GraphiMail without at least half a terabyte of RAM?  You KNOW
that I NEEEEED it in order to be a team player at my job...look, it
says so in this magazine!"

  [Dave takes off tie, puts the copy of BusinessWeek on the floor,
   pees on it, and goes back to putting together his pdp11/73]

              -Dave McGuire