I was flipping through the flyers that were tucked into my daily newspaper the other day.  With students heading back to school this September, laptops were prominently featured in all the electronic stores’ inserts.  What stood out for me was the affordability of good quality laptops at all the major retailers.  For under $700, you could buy a laptop that has a reasonably fast mobile processor, a large amount of memory, a DVD player/CD burner and lots of storage space.  It seems that prices have fallen by almost half since I bought my laptop 18 months ago. 

I recently wrote a post about city council’s plans to transform Vancouver into a wireless villiage, offering unrestricted high-speed access to the Internet across the city.  Combine this with affordable hardware and truly mobile computing will be a reality before the Olympics arrive here in 2010.