View Single Post
Posts: 1,950 | Thanked: 1,174 times | Joined on Jan 2008 @ Seattle, USA
#54
I don't have a, uh, regular (or working) lifestyle. I get to spend lots of time in bed and a decent amount of time traveling, lightly.

Traveling -- How cool is it to have a Skype phone in a foreign country. A navigation device with a street map of some strange city and a GPS that can show me just where I'm walking around. A web browser (and email). A translating dictionary. Lots of movies for the airplane. A big collection of books I can carry on a 2-gram SD card and read in a great eBook reader. Podcasts and music I can download and stream without a computer. And all of it in about 200 grams! Heck, on the road it's the best alarm clock, too.

In bed -- I like lying on my back, slightly propped up, in my oh-so-comfortable bed, browsing the web, answering emails, listening to podcasts, and reading. I have a small subnotebook -- ThinkPad X-series -- but it's entirely the wrong form factor for lying in bed. A netbook would be no better. Give me a little N800, none of that sliding keyboard stuff, and a stylus, and I can browse, read, click and type all day!

It occurs to me that I could do almost all the above on an iPod Touch instead of a NIT. But I'd immensely miss the screen size and resolution for reading and movies and properly viewing webpages. And I'd miss the flexibility of removable SD cards and the option of using a bluetooth keyboard when I travel.

And then there's this forum, which is a sort of anarcho-utopian geekfest, where I can piss away time arguing with General Antilles, get my dumb questions answered by the likes of 16-year-old Qwerty12, have my wishes fulfilled by people like Bundyo and BrentDC, find brotherhood with lm2, and make believe I can advise Nokia as to how it should run its business!
 

The Following 11 Users Say Thank You to GeraldKo For This Useful Post: