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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