I did not bring my laptop to SIGGRAPH this year to discourage myself from working inside the convention center or the hotel room.
Experimental results indicated that this motivated me to spend more time hanging out with people, which is supposed to be the main goal for a conference. I can easily schedule all events and meetings via my smart phone and tablet. (Even the tablet is probably not necessary, if I can address a few technical issues of my phone.)
I probably would have had to bring my laptop if I had to give any talks. None of the Android apps I know of can adequately author talk slides. If such apps eventually show up (and I expect they will), I would happily travel with only my phone in the future.
Eventually though, the phones will likely become powerful enough for me to work inside the hotel rooms (again).
🙂
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