I've been wanting to buy a new laptop for some months now and I've been doing quite a bit of research about the subject, and I came across an article selling a laptop that boasted to be the world's smallest laptop. When I dug deeper, however, I discovered that this smallest laptop was really a PDA that could do virtually everything a laptop could, minus a few of the advanced features. Going even further, I began to see that even some cell phones were boasting to be like small laptops, many with tiny integrated keyboards that could do virtually everything a laptop computer could do. Maybe I've been out of the technological loop for too long, but it seems as though the lines of what's what in technology are all beginning to blend together. From what I've seen, the concept of the world's smallest laptop is now kind of an ambiguous term.
Having not bought a laptop in a really long time, and being generally out of the technological loop, it's difficult for me to tell what's what these days. Phones now can basically perform all the tasks that laptops can, and PDA's have seemed to be nearly equivalent in technology to laptops for quite awhile now. And laptops are continuing to get smaller, and are beginning to take on more functions. Doing some research, I even found some laptops that had integrated cameras, much like modern cell phones. Some laptops even boast that they only weigh a pound! A single pound! It seems to me that the day is almost here in which we'll have one device that functions to meet all our electronic needs. Maybe I'm just behind the times.
I'm a skeptic, and I'm not so sure that there'll ever be a device that truly meets all the electronic needs of the average American. It's really a situation where the biggest benefits to having a smaller device are also some of the biggest drawbacks to efficiency. For one thing, the more portability a device has, the less user-friendly it seems to be to get things done quickly. Have you ever tried typing on the touch screen of a Iphone? I'd go crazy. The lighter and more portable an item gets, usually the less efficient it is in terms of getting work done on it. So how does a device combine portability as well as efficiency? I'll leave that question to the engineers. For one thing, roll out keyboards are definitely quite an invention. When I first heard about those, I couldn't believe it was possible, rubberized keyboards that could be rolled up and carried around with ease, enhancing the efficiency of many handheld devices by a huge amount for only and handful of dollars. It's pretty incredible when you stop to think about it. Maybe that's the best solution we have for now. We'll have to wait and see.
I know that bug business is definitely hammering the idea of creating that one perfect device, the catch all of electronics that can do whatever its user wants it to do at an efficiency equal to the traditional systems. I'm definitely eager to find out what new gadgets science and engineering are going to come out with. It may be a long way off, but it's coming.
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