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Once again, we are on the brink of a social revolution caused by the high tech catalyst. In the past, we have not been able to combine the power of computing and the benefits of mobility into a package that could be affordable to the masses. If you wanted low cost power, you had to stay at home with the desktop. If you wanted lost cost mobility, you had to resort to a cell phone with Internet access. But now, with plummeting laptop prices, both computing power and mobility will be accessible to all.
Can you remember the early laptops? Besides being clunky and heavy (in retrospect, though at the time they were state of the art), they were expensive, and even people in the upper middle class could not afford them. Like so many things, instead of getting cheaper, the quality just improved dramatically year after year. For the same money, the laptops were speeding up and becoming more user friendly. The problem was that the laptops were still out of reach for most household budgets.
Mobility for many was defined to be cell phones and hand held devices. Now, those technologies definitely have their places – the convenience of carrying a device in your purse or pocket that allows you to have connectivity is staggering – but those devices really do not have the full usability and flexibility that a laptop offers today.
The consumer will have more freedom than ever to have full computing power away from the desk. Whether the employee is working at a home office, or in the local park, or on the top of a mountain 500 miles away, the capability is there for an affordable portable computer solution. So many more people will have connectivity, allowing the world to be more flexible and in touch.
The impact that this will have on society is interesting to consider. With the technology of cheap laptops available to a significantly higher percentage of people than ever before, communication and connectivity will be prevalent. News will travel faster; everybody will be in touch with everybody else, everywhere, anytime.
Applications such as social networking tools that worry about user counts will need to scale like never before; customer service and customer help organizations will see their call rates skyrocket; and we’ll see the need for new types of applications being developed.
Applications will have to think more about performance and scalability than ever before, especially as more people with more laptops use some of the social networking and E-commerce functionality available. This is a time for innovation. It’s exciting. Making this technology affordable for everybody will change the landscape, long term, in ways we cannot predict. It is exciting to imagine the possibilities!
Matthew Kerridge is an expert in electronic products. If you would like more information regarding cheap laptops or are looking for a cheap laptop please visit http://www.ebuyer.com
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