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Originally Posted by HarryT
The first generation of "portables" normally had gas plasma screens - mono screens where the text glowed orange on a black background. I had one, made by Olivetti. It was about the size of a large briefcase.
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Hell, I remember droolin over the osbourne. It had about a 3" mono screen (amber I believe), two floppies. It was about the size of a sewing machine.
I find that I can do almost all of my work on my ipad, I have an external keyboard dock (the lack of this would have been a dealbreaker for me). Most of my work is email and docs and such now, reading oreilly books, but that said, I do edit some source code and transfer it to my linux boxes (I do asterisk VOIP stuff for fun).
I rarely use my PC anymore, except to automatically download my podcasts, for later synching, and the ipad is on in a second, then off in a second, so I can get in, do a quick task, and be done, fast.
So I am feeling that the tablet is nearing the point of being all I would need.