Our software is always with us, ready when we need it. Our calendars are always handy. All we need is a phone line. Floppy disks are no longer needed to transfer data between our computers at home and work, or between customers' machines and ours. Portable computing makes it easy for customers to see the value of technology.
Presentations take less time, too, since the software is already set up.
We don't need to spend as much overtime at the office. There's more weight to carry around. To save our muscles, we each use a backpack-style carrying case. The whole outfit, including a few personal items, weighs about 25 to 30 pounds. In addition to the computer itself, we needed docking bars and full-size monitors and keyboards to be ergonomically correct at our permanent workstations.