As if there wasn't enough confusion in the laptop / subnotebook / PDA thingy world, Samsung has now created a laptop that moves in the other direction: a laptop equivalent of those boomboxes from the 1980s that were the size of a refrigerator, but ran on batteries, so they were "portable."
The Samsung M70 is indeed a 19-inch laptop that will debut at the IFA Consumer Electronics Show in Berlin that opens September 2nd. Sure the screen size is pretty impressive, but that’s not the only thing groundbreaking about the M70: The screen actually detaches from the notebook and can be placed on to a dock, thus transforming it into a monitor. This brings new meaning to the term “desktop replacement” as the M70 is not just a laptop, but really a portable desktop.
I'd like to take this as further evidence of my thesis that what we travel for business, we don't get out of the office, but essentially reconstruct small (or, depending on how big that table at Starbucks is, not so small) versions of our desks on the road-- that in effect the traditional story of computer making business travel obsolete is exactly backwards, and that the real story is one of making our offices mobile. But I suspect this is one of those products that exists mainly to prove that the engineers could make it.
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Funny!
Carrying heavy computers around sounds stupid to me.
It is the information/software you want to have access to. The "device" used to reach this information ought to be less important.
I remember bringing a heavy projector with me when visiting clients (when working as a consultant). Puuh that was heavy:)
Posted by: Klas K. | September 01, 2005 at 04:37 AM