What’s your computer of choice? Laptop? Desktop? Cell phone? Netbook?

Posted by Just a Guy
January 21, 2009

What’s your computer of choice? Do you use mainly a laptop or a desktop? Or do you rely on your cell phone and wireless service for all your “computer” needs? Are you far more up to speed than I — probably! — and rely on one of the “netbooks” mini-computers coming on the market?

I confess technology has gotten way past me on this one. My son purchased a new laptop a few months ago, a Sony Vaio, and got a really good deal on his new machine. (His previous computer was a very old desktop he gave to a friend and one ancient, almost non-functioning laptop I gave him when I replaced it with a newer model.) And just today, I read a review that Sony “shocked” the technology world when it unveiled a new “VAIO P” netbook small enough to easily fit in a jacket pocket.

Netbooks are a new frontier for me. I would love to see how they develop in the next couple of years. It would be wonderful — my Old Guy eyesight permitting — to make my next business computer something small enough to fit in a pocket. When I was a Young Guy, the now old-fashioned PDAs were just coming into vogue. Now look what technology has done. The PDAs appear to be joining the dinosaurs and technology has “lapped” me once again in the race of life.

So — what’s your cutting edge computing solution? Laptop? Desktop? Cell phone? Or, here’s that term again, netbook?

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We are a Vaio family. I use a wide screen VGN-AR170P, my wife is on a smaller Vaio, my daughter is dreaming of getting one day too. :)

Comment by Geno Prussakov on January 21, 2009 @ 12:03 pm

I prefer the power and screen size of a desktop for my coding and design work, but also have a laptop for lighter duties. My desktop is several years old now and has some problems, so I’ll probably be buying a new system this year. I’m on the fence about getting another desktop and whether I should build it myself like my last one or get a Dell… Another laptop would be nice now so I don’t have to share with my wife, LOL!

Comment by drivelocity on February 23, 2009 @ 6:39 pm

“Another laptop would be nice now so I don’t have to share with my wife” — hey, my wife bought her laptop about two years ago and I don’t think our household and marriage of almost 42 years would survive if anything happened to her laptop and we couldn’t find a way to replace it.

Well, okay, the marriage would PROBABLY survive, but it wouldn’t be pretty. LOL!

Comment by Gary on February 23, 2009 @ 7:42 pm
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