Using a laptop to get work done is just horrid horrid stuff. Flat keyboard… garbage. No mouse (kk, yeah that’s my fault i could plug a mouse in, but frankly, using the PC is easier than keeping a mouse near/connected to the laptop), garbage. Tiny screen… laughable (ok that’s a quibble). Sitting on a couch, ridiculous. I can actually see the pc from here. I should be using it instead. but NO. Really, this laptop experience should not suck. The keyboard should be ergo. It should have a mouse *built in* that I can just dock and keep charged. The screen should let me extend it vertically (like slide up and away from the keyboard).
My trusty lappy is starting to lose its marbles too. Now if I reboot it, about half the time I lose the LCD screen. It’s actually showing stuff, but at like 1/20th brightness. I really don’t wanna spend money on a laptop right now.
If I get another one though, it’s gonna be a mac probably. I don’t need real speed in a laptop, and the idea of doing a bit of iPhone dev here and there is kinda exciting (though that would mean somehow getting an iPhone even though i’m scatologically(!) opposed to them and their horrendous data tethering schemes.
In fact the iPad’s 3g a-la-carte data plan is a thing of genius. So maybe it’s iPad dev I really want to be into. Ffik, In reality I probably won’t do much of either if it doesn’t directly lead to my quality of life improving. What I really need to do is organize my basement. I’m suspecting there’s no app for that.