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I left college right as the "everyone always has a laptop" trend was beginning. I never could see the point of one in a class. You can type much faster, yes, b
by imgabe 11y ago
I left college right as the "everyone always has a laptop" trend was beginning. I never could see the point of one in a class.
You can type much faster, yes, but you can't easily draw. Especially for math, engineering, science type class you really need to be able to quickly copy down diagrams, graphs, equations, etc that aren't always easily entered into a text editor. For me those always helped understanding much better than trying to describe the same concept in words.
- jff 11y agoYeah, I tried taking notes on my laptop a few times in engineering classes before I realized how hard it is to sketch digital logic in an emacs text buffer! Even the guy who used a Windows tablet with Onenote didn't actually use it much... and now that I have a Surface for work, I hardly use it as a tablet, I just carry a notebook with me.