If you are thinking of buying a laptop, I would presume that you will go for the price and not much on considering if it is high end. Unless you are rich or a millionaire you would go for the best like those laptops that cost hundreds of thousands of pesos. Before the small laptops (or netbooks) emerge from the market, the only choice we have was either having a cheap but slow laptop computer or a fast state-of-the-art but costly laptop computers. But now the choice we have is to decide whether if we will buy a netbook, a slow cpu laptop or a high end laptop.
Netbooks are cheaper but will it satisfy us? I’m also planning of having a netbook but when I read some articles regarding the disadvantages of it, I soon realized that I don’t need it. I always thinking of buying a laptop because it is less bulky than a desktop but because of the price, it is not possible for me to buy at least a dual core because if I’ll buy the older one like the celeron or pentium 4, it’s like just buying a second hand laptop. Although I want to settle buying a second hand, I’m very skeptical about the true condition when I buy from eBay or from a store. The previous owner could have dropped it or mishandled it. Also, the price of a second hand laptop is not cheap.
There is new gadget that can accept credit card payment just using a mobile phone particularly an iphone. According to some report it can also be used on a laptop. It is a kind of dongle that you can plug on an iphone audio jack, a tiny square shaped plastic that can read credit card info and can transact just like a credit card terminal. The biggest advantage of this kind of technology is almost every one who has an iphone can avail of this new technology (not exactly every iphone user because as of this moment it is only available in the U.S.). To accept a payment by credit card, all you have to do is to swipe it in the square dongle and the information will be transfered to the iphone. Then in real time you can charge the card and presto you have the payment, possibly in your bank account. The square plastic device works simple unlike the traditional credit card terminal where a merchant needs to have a merchant account, monthly fee and transaction fee whereas the square is free. Before I forget to mention, this device was a brain child of Jack Dorsey, the founder of 
Technology will be with us until the end of this world and no one can deny it’s existance even if you live under a rock for decades. Since the arrival of the internet age, I guess technology is now fast paced unlike before when it still doesn’t exist. Maybe this is what the bible says about “People will go here and there to increase knowledge”. Yes the medium of transportation helped a lot on the exchange of information (e.g. jet planes and bullet trains) that allow people to travel on distant places in a short period of time. But compared with the internet, the collaboration between people on all parts of the globe makes it possible to do things not possible without this technology. The realtime lightning speed of the internet with the latest hightech software makes those things possible.