“Windows notebooks offered for sale in North America are stuck in evolutionary stasis,” Tom Yager asserts. That is the very reason for InfoWorld designing its own pair of ideal next-generation notebook computers — and doing so with the same practical restraints that notebook manufacturers face. “We set as a goal the creation of a single converged device that satisfies all of a business traveler’s needs, eliminating the cost and inconvenience of a separate phone, PDA, and media player while executing the functions of all of these nearly as well as a discrete device,” Yager writes. So we came up with The two best notebooks money can’t buy: the WorldBook Ether and WorldBook Meteor. “WorldBook can replace a notebook, cell phone, PDA, cellular data card, digital media player, and desktop computer. Any notebook could do that. We just ignored the conventional wisdom that says it shouldn’t be done.” Technology Industry