Luckily for me at age 61, I can read very well without my glasses. I do need glasses to see at a distance. As I tell people, I can see you but I don't know who you are without my glasses on. I love my X61 Lenovo laptop from work and am looking at getting an ASUS for my personal computer. My sister and nephew each have one and they love them. Traveling with them is a breeze.
I was OK until 31 or 32 (I can’t remember now), then things got bad. Astigmatisms, so near and far are problems but middle is great. The bad part is that since I had perfect vision until I was in my 30s I’m very much not a glasses wearer (and I have a severe phobia about touching my eyes so contacts are right out) so I tend to not wear them when ever I can get away with it (which is basically anything but reading and driving). I can still read some without them but it’s tiring.
I don’t really know what I’d do with a portable computer anyway. One of the things I like about going places is not being in contact with the world, if I was dragging the internet with me that would totally break that.
You sound very nearsighted as I was. Ten years ago had LASIK surgery — decided to go “monovision” — left eye for reading, right for distance. Left eye can still read newspaper down to about 6 inches, but used to be able to read it at 2”. But then they’ve made the print smaller to save paper also lol.