Comments on: Zinc Different http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20090105/zinc-different/ by John Paczkowski Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mac Beach http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20090105/zinc-different/comment-page-1/#comment-4145 Mac Beach Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:53:47 +0000 http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/?p=10552#comment-4145 Our electronics industry needs to read more classic children's fiction. Why do we have to decide between netbooks too small to touch type on and "laptops" that challenge what we used to use for TV sets in screen size? I think the death of desktop PCs has been erroneously and prematurely reported and for those that use portable devices *when they need to* there is still a desire for something that is neither too big nor too small, but rather "just right". Of course longer battery life is always good, preferably using some technology that doesn't regularly explode or catch on fire... another reason to seriously consider devices that plug into the wall when you spend 90 percent of your online time adjacent to one anyway. Our electronics industry needs to read more classic children’s fiction.

Why do we have to decide between netbooks too small to touch type on and “laptops” that challenge what we used to use for TV sets in screen size?

I think the death of desktop PCs has been erroneously and prematurely reported and for those that use portable devices *when they need to* there is still a desire for something that is neither too big nor too small, but rather “just right”.

Of course longer battery life is always good, preferably using some technology that doesn’t regularly explode or catch on fire… another reason to seriously consider devices that plug into the wall when you spend 90 percent of your online time adjacent to one anyway.

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