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[Chuck Guzis]

On 23 Aug 2010 at 14:26, Dave McGuire wrote:

>   ...thus illustrating the uneducated public's widespread notion that,
> since technology tends to shrink with development, and laptops are
> smaller than most other types of computers, that laptops are the "new"
> computers, and anything other than a laptop is obsolete.

In general, the public is still working on the "newer is better" 
theory.  Why anyone would want to sit at home and type on a laptop 
keyboard is beyond me.

But I've seen people ditch their desktop 2GHz P4 system for a new 
desktop Core Duo box in the hope that it will make their dialup 
connection faster.

--Chuck