Nad R wrote:
>
> "Pete C." > wrote:
> > Nad R wrote:
>
> > A great many real tasks require an actual keyboard and a much larger
> > screen. Many of the folks who have desktops where I work have triple
> > monitors, and even those of us who require the mobility of laptops run
> > in double display mode when docked at our desks.
>
> Desktops are needed in a modern office that can be very helpful in getting
> the job done. I question the usefulness of the laptop in the field today.

You question the usefulness because you have never done the type of work
we do.

> Those two hours of battery life is very limiting in a laptop.

My laptop gets more like four hours of battery life and I can readily
plug it in nearly everywhere I need to use it, including on aircraft.

> Transfer of
> data is often faster with Wifi or 3G than a low powered hard drive in those
> laptops.

WiFi or 3G are not remotely as fast as a local hard drive. As for WiFi,
we have that in our data centers and can readily connect from our
laptops from anywhere we happen to be working in the DCs, toss the
laptop on a chair or cart next to the rack with the equipment you are
working on and you're good to go. If you're going to be working for more
than a couple hours grab your power adapter and plug it in to the
nearest outlet.

> The HD display resolution on my pad is better than most Laptops
> and with a ten hour battery life.

Resolution without screen size is not very useful. We don't like having
to squint and the equivalent of 4 point text on some tiny screen.

>
> > Perhaps you have never worked in an environment that did significant
> > computer based work so you don't understand those needs. A company with
> > hundreds of thousands of square feet of data center space across dozens
> > of data centers around the world is certainly not living in any sort of
> > dinosaur age.
>
> Has nothing to do with the premise that laptops are becoming history.

It has everything to do with that false premise. If you haven't done
that kind of work, you lack the understanding of the requirements and
why your beloved ipad is not suitable.