| gabriel rosenkoetter on Sat, 19 Apr 2003 14:31:06 -0400 |
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On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 09:05:58AM -0400, Jason Costomiris wrote: > Yes, and it takes a LOT of battery to drive a 16" screen. :) Erm, well, yes, of course. :^> > trimmings (CD, battery, power supply). Traded that in a year later for > a Thinkpad T21 at under 5 lbs. Wow, amazing what a difference. My > shoulder was thankful. Heh. Perhaps I should have read back over this thread before asking my T22 question. :^> > Yeah, I saw that news article about the PC laptop that burnt that guy's > "little friend". Ouch. Well, I guess. But do you ever actually hold your laptop over your crotch while using it? I don't think it's anatomically possible. (Where do you *arms* go?) > Sure, but those 10 lbs of clothes is distributed over your entire body. Well, I was speaking of the 10 lbs of books and papers also in the bag, and I still think it's a legitimate argument. I see quite a few (business) people with a laptop and then the full contents of a briefcase in a bag. Um... what's the point? (Same goes for those PDA-and-mini-legal-pad leather folders, or PDA slots in physical address books. Why?) > The 10 lbs from the laptop is concentrated on a 2" x 4" area on your > shoulder where the strap hangs. Unless of course you go backpack, > which by the way, I highly recommend. Yeah, no argument I happen to carry, when I bother to carry a bag--usually just take my Apple Newton with me these days, a leather bag that itself easily weighs 10 lbs. And loading it with school books and a laptop definitely made, say, biking up the hill to Swarthmore's campus (which, thankfully, I don't need to do any more) than pleasant. So I ditched the school books. In any case, if I were truly traveling, on foot, with a laptop- weight object on my back, a backpack would be by far preferred. -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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