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Old 05-14-2009, 08:15 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Manic_Skafe View Post
Fair enough, textbooks on a laptop aren't exactly comfortable but I'd like to see these things loaded with a tablet-style screen and the ability to share documents via bluetooth or a local network. That'd eliminate the need of textbooks and notebooks, revolutionize the classroom and be awesome for the environment.
That's really what I think the endgame is for consumer computers: a device that combines the advantages (mostly readability, writeability and power usage) of paper with the advantages (mostly access to and storage of information) of a computer.

Honestly, I'm not sure we're that far away between the first-generation e-ink readers and the netbooks and the advanced smartphone/MP3 players.
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