New Less Tangible - A Portable Portable
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"Today's laptops are portable and incredibly powerful. In many situations, they are superior to desktops, offering all the processing speed you need in a much smaller, more convenient design. Though I have a desktop G4, my main machine is my Titanium PowerBook. It lives on my lap. Loaded with a gig of RAM, a 1-Ghz processor, a 60-gig hard drive, and a DVD-burning Superdrive, it's everything I need.
"But there is one drawback to having all that power in a portable package.
Vulnerability. Since I depend so much on my PowerBook, I'd be lost without it. For one thing the Ti's probably worth more than my car (which tells you something about my car
. For another, the PowerBook contains the source code to the software I write, my novel-in-progress, my websites, and tons of other projects. That stuff's invaluable to me."Sure, I backup most of the data on it regularly, but not every day. What if it got stolen or dropped? I'd be up a creek."
The solution........?
You can check it out at:
http://www.macopinion.com/columns/tangible/04/06/17/index.html
