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I think that laptops are the perfect migration away from desktop I've just brought a laptop as my next main programming computer, rather than a desktop. Lapto

• fredley 14y ago
  I think Jeff and others are grouping laptops in with desktop PCs. For the purposes of this article, I'm pretty sure desktop means a computer with a large, touch-less screen, a keyboard and a mouse.
• aes256 14y ago
  Precisely. I don't see how a tablet is much of an improvement in form factor over a laptop. Recall the 'iPad + Linode' experiment [1]. In every photo Mark O'Conor posted of his iPad in action, he had an Apple wireless keyboard next to it. A screen and a keyboard. That's a novel idea. Combined, they take up just about as much space as a laptop (11-13") but the combination is far less usable. Smaller screen, less processing power, less flexibility using iOS, less customisability, so on and so forth. O'Connor was attempting to nullify one of those drawbacks (lack of processing power), but he can't escape all the others. [1] http://yieldthought.com/post/31857050698/ipad-linode-1-year-later http://yieldthought.com/post/31857050698/ipad-linode-1-year-...