LAPTOP FORUM

> wrote in message
> news:40a92c48.6417687@News.individual.net...
> > On Mon, 17 May 2004 21:58:03 -0700, ted.frater
> > Whilst great in theory they are a bit hard to take into lectures,
> > library etc.
>
> In a dimly lit lecture theatre, its always easier to use pen and paper.
> Most lecture theatres I have been in have been entirely unsuitable for
> laptops in terms of space.
>
> > Most Universities now are either already or in the process of being
> > fully Wi FI so people can work off their laptops in halls, Students
> > Union, Library, lecture theatres etc so it is very suited and aimed at
> > the growing number of people with Laptops..
>
> So they might be. It doesnt mean that hand-written essays are
unacceptible.
> No university worth its salt can downmark or refuse to accept hand-written
> essays. Similarly hand-written notes are as good - if not better - than
> laboriously entered data on a computer.
>
> I can drop hand-written notes. I might spend ages sorting the pages out
but
> my notes would be more durable.
>
> Dont get me wrong - I love computers. I do think that the data volatility
> plus the delicate nature of laptops added to their attraction to thieves
> tends to make them unattractive for me. I used to be a student but would
not
> care to risk what would be effectively my future life on something as dicy
> as that.
>
> --
> Yours
>
> Zebedee
>
> (Claiming asylum in an attempt
> to escape paying his debts to
> Dougal and Florence)
>
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