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Let's see. I own a laptop. So while we might argue that it isn't entirely free (electricity, depreciation, the cost of renewing the anti virus software), it's a damn sight less expensive than a wholly new machine. With less functionality than the laptop.
Backup to the cloud? Does that mean we have no backup when we not connected to the cloud? Spending weeks or months in that log cabin with no USB stick or DVD drive to back up to?
The screen may be bigger or better than some others, but that's like saying that rabies is not as lethal as ebola. It's not as good as my laptop's screen.
Lack of a mouse? A flexible pointing device for selecting text and moving it around or carrying out operations on that text independently of the rest of the document?
Not sure what my age has to do with anything, but for the record I am 50 and have been using computers for well over 30 years. I've lost count of the number of computers that I have owned or worked on.
Yes, there are writers who have written on a cell phone. That doesn't mean that we are all going to rush out and do it.
This is one of the oldest debates on the internet - and even before the internet. Someone buys product X and then defends it against someone else who has bought product Y. Think Apple vs PC, Apple vs Samsung, Nike vs Adidas, Pepsi vs Coke, Ferrari vs GM, Xbox vs PS.
This thing has some positives. The battery life should be good. It ought to be relatively light. It should be better than trying to type a novel on a cell phone.
But you are not going to persuade me to buy one, just as I am not going to persuade you of its negatives. It's a product that will suit some people but not others. All we can do is judge it by our own individual needs and preferences.
What debate? If you don't wish to write this way, or with a typewriter, or out in the woods with no electricity, then don't do so. No one is trying to make you, or cares even a tiny little bit one way or the other. There is no debate about it.
Th indisputable fact is that it works for me, and for a lot of others. And by "works", I mean we write better, faster, and more polished with less effort this way, and what we write sells. There is excel;lent scientific evidence to show why this is true.
Other things, such as the clod backup, have been explained. If you can back up to the cloud, you can then back up to any and all devices in existence. Anyone who has used the cloud at all should know this.
As for not being as good asyour laptop's screen, what the blanket-blank does that have to do with anything? This has exactly zilch to do with comparing anything to your laptop, to my desktop, or to a Robin Williams fart joke.
If you love your laptop, and you're happy with it, then use it, and more power to you. No one, no one, has tried to sell you one of these things, or a manual typewriter, or anything else, and no one has tried to talk you into using one. No one cares whether you do or don't.
This is simply something that interests some writers, who are expressing said interest in this thread. That's all it is. I hope you are your laptop are very happy together, and write many bestsellers.