Laptop vs. Desk Top

thomaschau
Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:57:48 +0000

I’ve been wondering this too.

But while pondering, I thought:

Wouldn’t it be a pain in the ass to do problems on a keyboard? Where’s the integral key? looks at keyboard I think a laptop would be much much more useful in a course loaded with trivial facts that you have to quickly jot down–like biology.
Laptops are also not as powerful and are pretty much only good for note-taking, which, in engineering, might be useless.
Desktops could be useful for intense engineering applications.
Anyone an actual engineering student who has input?

I’d love to have a science/math/engineering keyboard and software for taking notes and doing problems. Write the equations term by term, one shift key for subscripts, a shift key for superscripts, a few letters of the alphabet, a buncha greek letters, hmms…