Mobile Ministry Magazine: What is Mobile Anyway (MobileRead)

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Wednesday, March 28, 2007

What is Mobile Anyway (MobileRead)

BobR over at MobileRead has just published an excellent commentary asking the question "What is mobile anyway?" Here is a snippet:

...at one time a small notebook computer was the perfect example of wonderful mobility in computing. I used an older Dell notebook at work, and I can tell you that it's not my idea of easily portable. It didn't have an integrated optical drive. The battery life was appalling. It didn't have built-in WiFi. And if I carried it around, it really needed to be in a protective case. So what appeared to be a wonderfully portable and mobile solution was miserable.

The tiny, sleek notebook computer by itself was wonderful. But I had to add an optical drive, shell for the drive, AC power cord, network wire, WiFi card, heavy and bulky laptop case, etc. Now my portable computer was not so portable after all...

Read the rest.