The fingers have it (not the thumbs)

摘要

I First Carried A "PORTABLE" computer to COMDEX in 1982 - the Osborne I, which I wrote a book about. In retrospect, it was insane to carry a box the size of a sewing machine to a computer conference. While smart-phones today have more computing horsepower than that old Osborne, there is a difference between portable and useful, and smartphones don't cut it for real work. Smartphones are, by their nature, communication devices with limited computing functionality grafted on. Laptops, notebooks and netbooks, on the other hand, can be turned into full-featured smartphones, giving you the best of both worlds. While smartphones have their place and may be adequate for some roaming knowledge workers, their ergo-nomic and, to a lesser extent, communications limitations are too ereat for them to ever be adeauate replacements for notebooks.