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Gadgets you should get rid of (or not)
- bergie 16y agoWriting this in an apartment surrounded with digital clutter - discarded netbooks and such - it may feel hyporitical. But I really feel convergence is killing the need for separate devices. Macbook Air is my "work computer". It is small and highly portable, and still has great battery life. Since I mostly write software and don't use an IDE, there is little in computing power that I need. Then I have the N900, a hacker-friendly Linux phone with a great camera. I read stuff on it while traveling, and listen to music or podcasts during flights. It has good enough camera that I rarely take the "superzoom" with me, and when I have it, the Maemo phone takes more pictures. GPS navigators I never liked. I'm more in favor of clock, compass and paper map, with the vastly better "big picture" that provides. Books I have gotten rid of. At home I read them on the Kindle iPad application, and on the road from either the phone or the laptop. On top of this stuff, good speakers at home, and nice-cancelling headphones for travel complete the kit. But I wonder how long until the laptop-smartphone-tablet combo will converge?