3 reasons to have a laptop instead of a desktop

, Will Kahn-Greene | share this (mastodon)
Note: This is an old post in a blog with a lot of posts over a long span of time. The world has changed, technologies have changed, and I've changed. It's likely this is out of date, the code doesn't work, the ideas haven't aged well, or the ideas were terrible to begin with. Let me know if you think this is something that needs updating.

  1. You can bring your work home with you and sit on the deck and sip iced tea while working on stuff.

  2. When the power goes off in the building and everyone around you does a cry of despair, you can keep doing stuff.

  3. You can sit on the couch, you can sit on a lawn chair, you can sit in your bed, you can sit at a desk, you can sit on the bus, you can sit on the plane, you can sit on the train, you can sit on the floor, you can sit beside a door, you can sit outside, you can sit inside, you can sit in the mall, you can sit in the hall....

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