Despite the recent hack on his now inactive Verizon Wireless account, President-elect Barack Obama is still pushing to have access to a BlackBerry - or some sort of Internet-connected device - while in the White House.

In a Friday interview with Barbara Walters, Obama admitted that the prospect of losing his beloved BlackBerry is "a problem" but that he is working to find a solution.

"One of the things that I'm going to have to work through is how to break through the isolation, the bubble that exists around the president," Obama said. "And I'm in the process of negotiating with the Secret Service, with lawyers, with White House staff ... to figure out how can I get information from outside of the 10 or 12 people who surround my office in the White House? Because one of the worst things I think that can happen to a president is losing touch with the struggles that people are going through every day."

For security reasons, the president has traditionally surrendered devices like cell phones and personal e-mail accounts upon taking office. Obama aides told the New York Times recently that the President-elect will likely follow suit, but that he might be the first ever president to have a laptop on his desk in the Oval Office.

But will it be a Mac or a PC? Michelle Obama told Newsweek in February that she purchased two Macbook laptops for the President-elect and the children so they could use the iChat function to keep in touch while Obama was on the road.