<strong>Nobody said you can't, but I don't get the point of doing so, if it's not supposed to replace current computers. For word processing, you'd probably have to carry around a keyboard and a mouse too, so there goes your mobility vs. a laptop.</strong><hr></blockquote>
A laptop's HDD is slow and small. With one of these wireless quartzified xterms, you can have Ultra3 SCSI Cheetah Array speed without actually having to lug a bunch of big drives around your house with you. Also, since the HDD isn't in this little "iPad", it's not the end of the world if you drop it, or it gets stolen, etc.
[quote]<strong>In situations where you don't need keys and mouse, you could probably just use one of those e-book readers.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Those gizmos are pretty cool, but as far as I know none of them can display anything other than a few books. If you were using a wireless display, you could access your entire HDD and the internet.
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<strong>Nobody said you can't, but I don't get the point of doing so, if it's not supposed to replace current computers. For word processing, you'd probably have to carry around a keyboard and a mouse too, so there goes your mobility vs. a laptop.</strong><hr></blockquote>
A laptop's HDD is slow and small. With one of these wireless quartzified xterms, you can have Ultra3 SCSI Cheetah Array speed without actually having to lug a bunch of big drives around your house with you. Also, since the HDD isn't in this little "iPad", it's not the end of the world if you drop it, or it gets stolen, etc.
[quote]<strong>In situations where you don't need keys and mouse, you could probably just use one of those e-book readers.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Those gizmos are pretty cool, but as far as I know none of them can display anything other than a few books. If you were using a wireless display, you could access your entire HDD and the internet.
edit: spelling
[ 12-09-2001: Message edited by: Whisper ]</p>