I'm almost totally on wireless for all my machines, except when I'm transferring large files in which case I use my ol' iPod. 🙂
Hello, MJ! Thanks for checking in on this totally unscientific survey
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Part of the motivation behind my query: laptops were once considered a luxury or a toy, the device you used to augment your desktop or because your boss gave you one to use on road trips or in the field. They weren't widely regarded or respected as a primary choice for one's computing needs. Thanks to the widening availability and awareness of Wi-Fi, the creation of laptops/notebooks with durability and versatility comparable to the average desktop computer, and the movement away from the industrial workstyle (fewer and fewer of us work in offices, at desks, or in factories), we are untethered.
We can work where we want and how we want and however we know ourselves to be most productive and creative: in the hammock, seated in our cars, in our pyjamas, power-dining with clients in a fine restaurant. We who laptop know our population is growing, we encounter one another and share ideas and questions across the Starbucks patio, our desk-bound colleagues and workmates enviously ask "so how does that work anyway?", and the multiplication of sites like JiWire demonstrate that our numbers are on the uptick. However, key parts of the technology are lagging: if you doubt this, see how many times the topic of "how can I improve my wireless reception on my laptop" in MR, much less any other forum open to laptop users be they Mac-heads or Brand X.
Mobility is the name of the game. It's driving the changes in cellular technology at a fever pitch, it should be doing the same for laptops/notebooks. The headcount here will be a tiny index to the bigger reality.
