The Fun and Convenience of Notebook Computers

Desktop computers are amazing devices. They allow us to access the Internet and all of the information linked up throughout the world, they let us play interactive video games and type up letters to friends and balance our checkbooks. With them we can watch movies or download music or make our own compact disks. They’re becoming less expensive and more powerful every day. However, if you want to check your email over a cup of coffee at your local Starbucks or type up a memo while you’re riding the bus, you’re pretty much out of luck if you do not have a notebook computer. Desktop computers are a lot of things, but with their bulk and masses of cables they’re not very portable.

Fortunately, notebook computers, like their desktop counterparts, have become much more affordable and more powerful in the past few years.  They’ve also gotten a lot smaller. Six or eight years ago, a notebook computer was closer to the size of an encyclopedia than a notebook, and it weighed about as much. Today’s notebook computers are much closer to the size and shape of actual notebooks (though maybe three-subject notebooks; most aren’t to one-subject size quite yet). Although smaller, the amount of power that manufacturers can pack into notebook computers is formidable. A few years ago it simply wasn’t possible to pack the power of a desktop computer into a notebook. Today, high-powered notebook computers are plentiful, although they’ll cost about twice as much as desktop versions.

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So who needs a notebook computer? The most obvious candidates are students and professionals e who travel a lot for work. Students usually find themselves studying and writing in libraries, coffee shops, restaurants, and sometimes even at their desks, so having a portable workstation is a huge boon. The same goes for anyone who gets a lot of their work done while away from their desks, or at least anyone who would like to. Many professionals will store presentations or documents on their notebook computer and then plug the notebook computer into a projector so that documents can be viewed in a conference setting.  Other professionals will use the notebook computer to take notes at a meeting or to draft documents at the hotel or restaurant after the meeting is over.

Those who usually work either at their desks or at home probably can’t justify the added cost of a notebook computer, since they won’t get much added convenience out of the purchase. For anyone on the move, however, a notebook computer will allow you get a lot of work (and play) accomplished while away from your desk and out in the world.

"The Fun and Convenience of Notebook Computers," contributed by Veronica Lopez