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A blog for DevSource.com.

This blog was originally part of the blogs.ziffdavis.com site from May 2005 through June 2007 when the blog was moved to the Movable Type blog engine and hosted at blog.devsource.com/devlife.
The original blog was eventually shut down and I was given the posts so that I could host them on my own site.


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Got 'yer Origami yet?

I was at a party last night and someone asked me “so, have you got an Origami yet? Heh heh.”

Yes, even here in my little town of Huntington, I have a bit of a reputation as a local geek. But even looking ahead to the time when the Origamis are available, the 2.5 hour battery life has been brought up to a useful amount and the price is reasonable, I still don't see myself replacing my laptop with it. It's just the nature of my work. Remember, I have a dual 19” monitor display setup. I need screen real-estate to use Visual Studio. Nearly every trip I have taken in the past few years required that I have my TabletPC (aka my laptop) with me as I was presenting at user groups or conferences and needed to do some work while I was travelling. as well.

I have four devices that I travel with: a Tablet PC, a cell phone (which would be perfect if it was a SmartPhone), an iPod Nano and a Canon Elph.

When the auxiliary display becomes reality AND it is a smartphone then come talk to me!  I'm talking about a smartphone embedded into the exterior of a TabletPC that I can use to “look inside“ of my computer, can use as a phone in place or by popping out of the tablet's body. But I'll still be keeping my iPod Nano.

posted on Saturday, March 11, 2006 9:05 AM