<p>I’ve been wondering this too.</p>
<p>But while pondering, I thought:</p>
<p>Wouldn’t it be a pain in the ass to do problems on a keyboard? Where’s the integral key? <em>looks at keyboard</em> 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?</p>
<p>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…</p>