It is a fact. Laptops have leapt into the field of global sales with the strength and flexibility of Bruce Lee, effortlessly dispatching their desktop competitors with nothing more than a dynamic one-inch sonoma.
With wi-fi technology flourishing all around us, the demand for laptops will only increase. The ability to casually play games or surf the internet in wireless coffee shops and airports will ensure that laptops remain incredibly popular.
However, laptops are not only used for leisure. Mobile technology is also beginning to dictate what happens in the classroom. This is especially true as notebooks are entering the educational field in increasing numbers. In fact, schools like Framingham State College and Myron B. Thompson Academy have chosen to use laptops as classroom teaching tools.
Thanks to the adaptability and portability of laptops, retailers enjoyed a bountiful sales year in 2004. Consequently, everyone is using laptops these days, from the cheerful seventh graders to the septegenarians running zimmer.
But can this popularity and incredible global sales figures be sustained?
If you can. Once you couldn’t find a laptop for less than a thousand dollars, but now there is an entry level that sells for seven hundred dollars, and even less with coupons and rebates. Wal-Mart recently began offering laptops with Linux operating systems and 30GB hard drives for less than $ 500.
So how low can laptop prices get?
Can you say a hundred dollars?
If Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the MIT Media Lab gets his wish, wireless laptops will soon be available to third world countries for around $ 100.
2005 – The year of the rooster?
Think again. This is definitely the year of the laptop.