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Personally, I have never liked the laptop form factor as a mobile option. Too awkward to use in a plane or a train seat. To heavy and bulky to get through an airport (unless you have a netbook, I guess), not good for e reading. I have had a few laptops in my life, and they don't tend to go anywhere with me. They are mostly used at my kitchen table when I don't feel like going down to my office to use the computer or if I REALLY need to get something done when we visit my parents downstate.

My laptop will be replaced by my iPad for all but one piece of software--and that software is actually going to be on iPad soon too. I agree with what Leo LaPorte said the other day--the iPad is the computer that Apple set out to build 35 years ago--it's a computer for everyone, not just geeks. I plan on using it to its fullest potential and I am really excited to finally have a device that's useful during travelling or commuting. My iPhone is definitely not going to be used as much on the train anymore.
 
The crazy thing is, in another world we could be going mad about this new laptop invention to replace the tablets we have been using for the past 15 years.

Wow, this new invention "the laptop" is so amazing, it's incredible it's not been thought about before.

Juts look at all the advantages it's got over the old tablets we've been struggling with for years and years.

1: Finally we don't have to hold the thing up, or find things to prop the screen up so we can actually see the display. It has this new "hinge" idea that you just open to the angle you want and it stays there!

2: At last, we don't have to cover the display we are looking at with our hands, finally we can see all of the screen all of the time.

3: New amazing accuracy, no longer are we limited to our clumsy and inaccurate fingers to try and control items on the screen, finally they can put more things on the screen and we can use a far more accurate pointer.

4: As we don't have to hold it up, we can enjoy a larger screen size with a higher resolution, again, so we can get more detail and information on our screens.

5: We have a real physical keyboard we can type faster on, we can feel the keys without looking as a sheet if smooth glass to make sure our fingers are in the right place, and of course, the keyboard is separate and not taking up half the screen.. wow!

6: We finally have room for stereo speakers, AND they are facing us, not pointing backwards away from us.

7: When we are finished, we fold it up, and the screen is protected from damage, even if we push it into our carry bag, it's not going to get damaged.

8: It's got a hard drive that can store hundreds of times more information than the tiny amount our old tablets could store.

9: It's got a whole selection of ports around the outside, so we can connect directly to many devices and even read memory cards without having to buy adaptors.

10: It's got more power, to run Games and more complex business applications faster than ever.

Wow, this new device is so amazing in so many ways. This is totally the future, well done Apple for coming up with this amazing new device called the Laptop, it's so advanced in so many ways compared to the limited tablets we've been struggling with for so many years now.

:D
 
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