{"id":22184,"date":"2003-12-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-08T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2003\/12\/08\/death-of-the-laptop\/"},"modified":"2003-12-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-08T06:00:00","slug":"death-of-the-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2003\/12\/08\/death-of-the-laptop\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of the Laptop?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/TECH\/ptech\/12\/08\/handheld.future.reut\/index.html\">CNN today there is a story<\/a> about how smart phones and PDA&#8217;s might make the laptop obsolete. The story talks about how the PDA has many of the same functions as a laptop, but in a much smaller (and more easily transportable) form factor.<\/p>\n<p>As a user of both a Pocket PC PDA and a laptop, I do not think that the PDA will make laptops obsolete. Sure, you can check email, browse the Internet and listen to MP3&#8217;s using a PDA, but it is a royal pain in the butt to input a good deal of text. Until someone invents a really portable keyboard (a fabric keyboard would be awesome), I think the traditional laptop is here to stay. Plus, how are you going to load Photoshop on your smart phone? I&#8217;d have to say that the best solution right now is an ultra-portable laptop. Something around 2-3lbs with at least 40GB HD.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, PDA&#8217;s are relatively cheap, so that&#8217;s a good choice as long as you know what you can and can&#8217;t do with it. I love to browse the web with it, but I won&#8217;t bother writing long emails with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On CNN today there is a story about how smart phones and PDA&#8217;s might make the laptop obsolete. The story talks about how the PDA has many of the same functions as a laptop, but in a much smaller (and more easily transportable) form factor. As a user of both a Pocket PC PDA and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2003\/12\/08\/death-of-the-laptop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Death of the Laptop?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Fk3x-5LO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}