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Should I use a laptop as my only computer? That's not an uncommon question these days.
Choosing a notebook as primary computer certainly is a reasonable choice, especially now that many are packed with the power and capabilities formerly found only in desktop models.
In 2000, I used a Dell laptop as my sole PC. It worked fine for a year, until the CD drive began behaving erratically and finally quit. At the same time, I started thinking the notebook's small screen, single USB port and 128 megabytes of memory weren't enough for the range of projects I wanted to do.
So I switched to a Hewlett-Packard Pavilion desktop with a 17-inch monitor, one Firewire and four USB ports, CD-RW and DVD drives, 80 gigabyte hard drive and 512 MB of memory. Laptops didn't carry all that back then, at least at any price I could afford.
My older daughter, for example, likes being able to take her Toshiba laptop to work, coffee shops and friends' houses. Still, she has complained that after a year of constant use, the CD-RW drive sometimes doesn't work. That sounds familiar.
Reader Don Brubeck wrote that his daughter "took a brand new laptop to college and within days spilled a cup of lemonade on the keyboard. If it were a desktop computer, the damage would have been a $50 keyboard. But a laptop has the motherboard under the permeable keyboard, and it was a $1,200 event, with the computer at a repair shop for two weeks. She learned a costly lesson in how to make a lemon out of lemonade."
For three years, University of Washington professor Mike Copeland has been using an Apple PowerBook to do all his work, including creating videos for teaching. He keeps a peripheral keyboard and mouse at home and another set at work to make using the laptop easier. Plus, he regularly backs up the traveling data on an external hard drive.
The only problems, he says, have been a CD drive that died (no surprise), and once he dropped the notebook in an airport and had to replace the screen.
Mac programmer Kevin Callahan says a lot of professionals use Apple's 17-inch PowerBook with FinalCut Pro to do broadcast-quality editing for video. But, he adds, no laptop can approach Apple's new 64-bit Dual 2Ghz G5 when it comes to processing video and audio.
The primary advantage of a laptop, of course, is mobility. Indeed, I started writing this column on a notebook in the lounge of the Rain City Fencing Center while my younger daughter began training for her current life's ambition to be a medieval warrior. Without the laptop, I would have had to pass three hours every day for two weeks reading magazines and novels while she learned to handle a foil.
That was in August, and I'm still procrastinating on my laptop decision.
Hmmm, the features and capabilities I would want on a laptop are different from what I'd want if I traveled a lot. If I were a frequent flier, I'd want my notebook to be light and have extended life of the battery such as Toshiba PA2487U Battery, Toshiba PA3107U-1BRS Battery, Toshiba PA3383U-1BRS Battery, Toshiba PA3384U-1BRS Battery, Toshiba PA3285U-1BRS Battery, Toshiba PA3191U-1BRS Battery, Toshiba PA3166U-1BRS Battery, Toshiba PA3331U-1BRS Battery, Toshiba PA3098U-1BRS Battery, Toshiba PA3084U-1BRS Battery and good Wi-Fi support. I'd also be concerned about theft, since more than 590,000 laptops were reportedly stolen in the U.S. in just a year.
Since I don't travel much, my laptop doesn't need to be superlight, but does need to be easily portable and must have ample battery life and Wi-Fi support. It also must have a few Firewire and USB 2.0 ports and enough speed, memory and storage space to handle large multimedia projects. That last requirement is still what makes me hesitate.
Maybe I should use a desktop for creating and saving multimedia projects, and keep it disconnected from the Internet so photos and videos will be safe. The notebook would then be the computer for daily e-mail, writing and searching the Net.
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