Daniel Thor Kristjansson wrote: > It's not about the power usage. I asked one of the counter persons and > she listed things like people unplugging lamps, things getting stuck in > outlets, people sitting in the best seats all day. Even though > they had tried to accomidate the customers with power strips. Basically > a number of problems can be traced to the laptop users.
This should be a lesson or problem for laptop manufacturers, who have the most to gain from the possibility that more people get into the mobile computing lifestyle. (Not just buying laptops, but actually using them.) Ever since wireless networks for laptops got affordable in 2000, we've heard about these visions. Newspaper ads show beautiful women with thin laptops sipping their latte at the desk of a San Francisco or Stockholm style caf�(*). Yeah, right. It's time to realize that it doesn't happen. Those who have tried it know: They are guys, they know far too much about computers to really care for the style, and they are alone. Seldom do you see another person with a wireless laptop in the same place at the same time, and when you get comfortable, reading halfways through your full inbox, the cafe staff starts looking at you like "if you don't order something new, you better leave this place". It's been four years now. Anything new? (*) Telia HomeRun brochure, http://www.homerun.telia.com/doc/files/homerun_folder_A4.pdf I guess my next laptop must have a full day-light screen the kind that the NEC Versa E120 DayLite used to have (did they discontinue that model?), so I can leave the cafe and enjoy more of my mobile computing out in the park. And really good batteries. -- Lars Aronsson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se/ -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
