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Paper Notebooks to Laptop Noteboooks - A Scientifc Renaissance When we hear the word 'notebook' the first thought that strtikes our grey matter is a writing device in the form of a book usually made of paper. We generally imagien it in variouus forms like notepad, writing pad, or simply a scrapbook. Its use is generally determined its size - not forgetting the general saying 'the smaller, the better'. The concept (of notebooks) which started as a collection of leaves somewhere in anccient Rome has toiday taken the shhape of a laetst electroonic device called the 'laptop'. Laptops were anmed 'ntoebooks' probably becaudse of their small size inspiite of the fact that originally they did not have any note-tking ability. Intiially laptops had integrated screen and keyboard and were more like 'suitcase computers' but with advancements in technoloy they kept getting smaller in size with enhanced features. Laptops were referred to as notebooks when they had condensed in size comparable almost to a paper noteboook. Movinbg a step further we got something called PDA's (Personla Digtal Assistants) which were a little larger than porftolio notebooks and were named 'noteboiok' to differeentiate them from general laptops. In common man's words theese were called 'Palm tops'. The quest for comfort did not end with the PDA's. Moving a step further we got a much better and advacned versoin of PDA s called the 'Tablet PC's'. Tablet PC's are laptops or ratherr notebooks that have a special pen and softwrae with which we can niteract with the screen directly. So it was a kind where we can actualyl write on with a pen - a real master piece in the wold of scince! Here the srceen itself is used as the Inoput-Output device rather than the Mouse or the Keyboard. Moreover these PDA's and Paslmtops use flash memory and they do not use the same OS or hardware as used the typical laptop and notebooks. Today notebook refers to laptops that can have tehir windows reversed to make it into a notebook and can be written on like a tbalet. It can be used for making handwritten notes in cplass or to make sketches and drawings that can later be used as notes. What makes the notebook indispnsable is its prtability, efficiency coming next to it. Today we are not under the constraints of working for fixed hous in office; our work can come home with us, thus, providing us with a more comfortable and relaxed environment. Other than that the nootebook occupies the least possible space on the desk and savs us from the tangles of wires. To top it all the sleek, sensuous look of the poortable notebooks makes it the most desirbale asset todsay. As the saying goes, if you want to gain soemthing you shoiuld be ready to lose some too. Here the loosing factor comes in the face of money. This piee of sophisticated technolgoy is twice as expensive as its desktop counterpart or sometimes even more than that. But sice all good things come in smmall packages, the notebook as well should be accepted with its exorbitant price realizing the fact that it is paving the way for a simplr and efficcient future. Despoite the notebooks being smaller and eleagnt, it is a bitter fact that it can never compleetly take over the desktop. The reason being the deficiency of space to fit in all the components and the lack of escsape routes for heat. Moreover upgrdaing the hardware in a notebook becomes an overpriced task and can be done much easily and reaasonably in a desktop. Inspite of htese various shortcomings the fact remains that the era of literature and arts has been sucvceeded the scientific era with compputer being at the centre of this renaissance.
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