Has the notebook-to-handheld conversion begun?

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I Don't See Notebooks Disappearing Anytime Soon For Several Reasons

1. Ability over convenience. Yes, it's great to have a blackberry-sized device to use, but does it have the necessary RAM and hard drive space to run today's apps? Not yet, maybe in the future it will but due to scalability always being behind the blackberry of today is the laptop of five years ago.

2. Gaming/Movies. Simply put, you ask most people what they do with their laptops on the road they tell you they play games and watch movies in their hotel room. Can't do that on a blackberry, unless you want to risk losing your sight squinting at a 2-inch screen.

3. Power. Laptop power today almost rivals most high-end desktop systems. Take my business laptop. It's a 3.4GHz Pentium 4 with 2GB of RAM, which far outdoes my desktop except for graphics, of which the laptop only has 128MB of RAM. Blackberries don't have the power of a laptop today.

4. Storage. How much storage can you possibly get on a blackberry? Even with flash drives you can only get affordably 4GB of storage, which is great for documents but not really anything else, especially if you have to store a large database on a laptop for moving from one place to the next.

What's my take on it? Blackberries are great, the techs here at my company all have them, but they aren't used as an "End all be all" device to replace laptops. Do I think Blackberries will have the ability to compete with a laptop? Probably, but not for another few years. Using laptops and blackberries in tandem would be a great idea, you take both on the road and use the blackberry when you are out and about conducting your business and then transfer the data to your laptop when you get back to your hotel room. While practical and somewhat gadgety, a blackberry does serve a purpose, but not as a replacement for the laptops of today.

My suggestion: Marry up a blackberry with an internal microdrive with the ability to jack into an LCD monitor or even a thin monitor that rolls up (like in Minority Report) once the technology for that is perfected..then maybe we'll see something rivaling the laptop.

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