(2004-03-22) Searls Linux Laptop

Doc Searls on trying to live with a LinuxOS Lap Top. There's no doubt that MacOs X Power Books are filling a gap left open by the lack of Linux Lap Top-s from major vendors. Most techies I know who use Power Books on the road have Linux servers at home... If you want to talk hardware sex, at least to suits like me, you have to talk laptops. The problem is, you can't leverage nonsexy desktop technology into sexy laptops, not entirely anyway. They're too different, not only in size and performance requirements, but in nature and purpose. This difference goes far beyond form factors and cosmetics. DeskTop-s are appliances. Lap Top-s are instruments. The difference between a Dell Computer DeskTop and an Apple Power Book is like that between a Kenmore washer and a Fender Stratocaster. He's having lots of WiFi problems.