Are Desktop Users Missing Something Compared to Laptop Users?
I’ve always wondered if I was missing something by not using a portable computer. After all, lots of folks seem to think they’re the best thing since sliced bread. But I personally have always been put off by portables so far, for the obvious reasons of easy theft, higher purchase and maintenance costs (and reduced expandibility) compared to desktops, and high risk of accidental damage and accompanying high repair/replacement costs. Still, I’d never actually experienced lengthy use of a laptop to see if maybe all those negatives might be overcome in some other ways. Now I have. Recently a laptop made its way into FLUX HQ, and hung around far longer than any previous such device (Note that this also represents the biggest chunk of PC use I’ve done in quite a while too). It’s a NEC Ready 340T Notebook with 300 MHz AMD-K6 MMX, 256K Level 2 Cache, 64 MB RAM, 4 GB hard drive, 24x CD, 56K modem, USB ports, external floppy (also swappable with CD), two PCMCIA card slots, 128 bit graphics with
