More and more business travelers are leaving behind the now-cumbersome laptop, which is difficult to use in a cramped coach seat anyway.
Tablets, with their larger touchscreens that are less cumbersome than laptops, lend themselves naturally to long-form content consumption, and that is spawning a new breed of services to fit the bill.
But those who prefer the Accu-Tuner say they would find it too cumbersome to carry a laptop to every tuning job.
To stash and retrieve that laptop or cumbersome carry-on that you don't want to lug around an airport in the hour or two you spend killing time, you'll need to be fingerprinted.
Besides the battery issue, lugging around a laptop can be cumbersome.
I've tried external hard drives, but I use them only as back-up since they are cumbersome to use with a laptop if I want continual access to my files.
Because the system allows you to pick and choose movies right on the TV screen, you don't have to fire up a PC with a Web browser, in that way ensuring a family movie night unsullied by laptop fans and cumbersome cables.
But laptops can be cumbersome, and the iPad has emerged as a popular device for medical professionals.
But this particular spot focuses not just on the things that people are doing with iPads, but specifically things that would be cumbersome, irritating or impossible with a laptop.
If carrying your laptop around is just too cumbersome for your salaciousness and the banning of sexy apps has ticked you off, exercising a little patience just might pay off in the end.
The consumer group does recommend extended service policies on three items, Ms. Hackett said: laptops, treadmills (they are too cumbersome to take to the shop, she said, and service calls are expensive) and plasma TV's, because the technology is new and "if you are spending $5,000 for a TV set, you might want to get a warranty".
