Laptops For Dummies
Chapter One
The Quest for Portable Computing
In This Chapter
* Understanding portable computing
* Looking back at laptop history
* Recognizing the Tablet PC variation
* Deciding whether you need a laptop
Technology is the eternal driving force behind the urge for humans to
improve upon their existence. Thousands of years ago, the primitive
people of this planet craved barbecue, so they invented fire. Then there was
a need for more food, so the organic farmers' market was born.
Fast-forward thousands of years and you'll find bespectacled proto-nerds
craving to bask their alabaster skin in the sunlight - or at least under a
tree in the quad. Using the primitive technology of the wheel (in the form of
castors) and an extension cord, they could well have wheeled the hulking
computers of the early 1950s outside and improved upon the existence of all
mankind by marking the dawn of the portable computing era. But it didn't
happen.
Indeed, it's been a long road, but the portable computing device you have or
are looking toward obtaining didn't j ... read full excerpt from: Laptops For Dummies ebook
