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IT's Love-Hate Relationship With Laptops

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the caucophony-of-pleasure-and-pain dept.

Ian Lamont writes "Are laptops really as great as they're cracked up to be? We love their portability, and we've been charting the steady rise of laptop sales for years. Yet while many of us depend on them for work, our IT departments view them with mixed feelings. IT managers point to wi-fi configuration, complicated authentication procedures, and eight other issues as making their jobs a lot harder. What else is missing from the list of laptop limitations? What would you like to see in the next generation of laptop computers?"

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  1. Re:Laptops by Wog · · Score: 0, Redundant

    HTML doesn't have commands. HTML has tags. HTTP has commands.

    You big baby. :)

    And one issue you miss is that most of these highly intelligent people aren't just ignorant because nobody has told them: They are ignorant because either they think that their time is too important to waste on learning mechanics which they could delegate, or they think that their elevated position allows them the luxury of passing menial tech tasks off to people that they pay to do unpleasant things.

    In both cases they are incorrect, and their productivity suffers, but it is what it is.