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Article: TECHNOBUDDY; CUSTOMIZE LAPTOP TO FIT YOUR NEEDS
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- Dayton Daily News
- Article date:
- November 27, 2003
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Laptop computers are necessary evils.
The keyboard is awkward; even the best screens make me squint; and
the laptop feels so toylike it should have a key to wind it up.
I've been using battery-powered computers since those ancient days
when the term notebook referred to a loosely bound pad of paper
instead of a computer. A laptop, in those days, was something you
peered over your stomach to see. Newspapers - out of necessity -
adopted these small computers during their earliest days. I can't
print what we called those small and horrible monsters in those days.
It sure was not laptop.
The keyboard doesn't feel right to me. The little plastic screen
makes me angry and afraid. Even worse, one ...