Daniel Baldwin

I remember when I was younger I used to lug my CRT monitor, tower, speakers, and other perennials to my cousin’s house every week so that we could all play computer games. I wanted the big heavy tower over a laptop because I could get better computing power out of it.

Now only 7 years later I have a 2 pound laptop that I haven’t yet been able to give it a task that it couldn’t perform without issue. We are in a time where we can have huge amounts of computing power in small machines. Relinquishing the need for most people to have a bulky desktop.

What is really interesting though is it would seem that it is beginning to become a trend to trade power for portability, thus netbooks are born. Netbooks seem to be all the rage with many companies already having a netbook in their product line up. Companies, like Apple, who don’t have a netbook in their line up are being begged to add netbooks.

I really started thinking about where things are going in regards to computing when I read this article in Daring Fireball. In the article John Gruber stated “But today, for many common tasks, the type of CPU you get when you build a $400 lightweight laptop is fast enough.” For along time now computing has been all about speed, now it would seem that its more about how portable you can be.