Would you like to own and use a laptop computer?

I fantasize about the top-end Sony Vaio. Ooh baby, ooh ah ooh.

I use it pretty much every day. It's my computer.

I have such great computational resources at work that I'm totally spoiled, and wouldn't enjoy using any computer that I could afford.

The keyboard is cramped. I hate the trackball/eraser think/touchpad options. The screen is generally too small. It is hard to break it open and switch things around. They are too easy to steal/lose/drop. The only advantage that they have is they are easier to dust and I do not dust so often that that would make me buy one.

Also the keys dont feel like keys should when you type and everything is in an odd place.

Laptops are like sex in airplane seats.

We have several but I prefer my handhelds. Kris swears by his Powerbook G3, which is actually running linux a lot of the time (although now that he's got VirtualPlayStation up and running, he's using it to play games quite a bit as well.)

I watched Ishizuka-san spill tea on his new Panasonic CF-45, and suprisingly, the thing actually was as water-resistant as advertised. The liquid flowed out through the front and soaked his pants, but continued to operate, apparently without any damage at all.

What I truly lust for are the prototype laptops that the two guys downstairs who work for Digital get to play with. Less than an inch thick, with gorgeous 15" tft screens that come to within 1/8" of the case edge - all in a five pound package. Sweet. (only $5k a piece - yoiks!)

Good survey explanation! thanks!

Actually, I'm intrigued by the idea of a wearable computer for portable use.

Me too. The closest I've come so far is Casio's Databank (schedule and tele-memo) watch.

There are a couple commercially produced wearables now that run M$ operating systems. I don't know how good they are. And there's always the build your own from PC/104 cards route. At the moment I'm just interested in the idea and looking.

dab - and there's the wearable beowulf cluster of SIMM-PC's...

I'm also lusting after the Sony VAIO. I've been lugging around 10lbs (traveling weight) of laptop for few years now, give me something really lightweight that I can type on and can display 1024x768. The under-5lb laptops are really sweet but still weigh too much for me, while the keyboards on the subnotebooks are too small.

My dream machine is a wearable that doubles as a cellphone with a heads-up display that doubles as my prescription glasses, using speech and hand motions for the interface.

jonathan - Sony has a new VAIO out, the 505TX, two months after I got my 505RX... :(

however the RX is a pretty splendid machine.

Other - I use one but don't own it.

jonathan- I'll post your bail when you're picked up by Cambridge's Finest for public drunkenness, walking down the street, talking to yourself and gesturing your way through Survey Central with your cellular modem dialed in....

topper - will you at least visit me in jail? I do this all the time, without benefit of a headsup handsfree net connection...

dpolicar - I'm sure steve could bake you some chocolate chocolate chip cookies with pecans and toasted coconut and dried strawberries and a file.

topper - That might happen the first few times, and then more and more people will be doing it, and eventually there will be calls by concerned citizens to ban walking and talking at the same time.

gilly - 'twould have to be a small file. Though I might be content to sit in jail and eat steve's chocolate chocolate chip cookies with pecans and toasted coconut and dried strawberries (though I'd prefer them without the coconut).

Too much $

I would love to have one. I could take it anywhere.

If i had money or it was free i would have one cuz then i wouldn't have to sit here all the time

no...that would make cyber sex next to impossible....

I have one for work, so I don't need to own one of my own.

I can't use a laptop to surf the web because my hardon gets in the way.

too many trite anonymous comments make me lose my hard on....UG!