Word: laptop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just see me as a resource especially for you, even better than your faithful laptop, and hopefully more reliable (I promise to come through for you and print at least every other week...
...tend to walk around these days saddled with so much stuff that I waddle like a plumber. Beeper, cell phone, personal digital assistant, laptop--sometimes I fantasize about Velcro-ing all my digitalia to bandoliers crisscrossing my chest: the Geek Rambo. Hasta la vista, baby, I say, dropping to my knees, ripping free a cell phone and speed-dialing a pizza...
...device was not for me. It costs $330--more if you want to buy the docking station to synch information with your desktop computer. And service starts at $30 a month for a low-volume user. Because of its limited functionality, the Pagewriter could not replace my laptop, PDA or cell phone. It would only upgrade my beeper--and since that's the smallest and cheapest of my toys, I plan to keep it on my bandolier...
Kids taking a laptop to college apparently aren't making the best use of their parents' investment. Only a small fraction of the high school class of 1998 is thinking of a career in the lucrative field of computer science, preferring business, education and health services. With a shortage of qualified computer workers for jobs that are expected to double in number by 2006, students would be wise to log on and make the grade...
...team had been in Wyoming for a week, and the database they had compiled was enormous. On the evening of Thursday, July 16, they gathered in the city hall to enter all the findings into their laptop computers and see what conclusions they could draw. Their early observations and calculations all pointed to Alpine's water, but they had not yet run any final statistical analyses, and they knew not to draw conclusions before all the tallies were in. Says Breuer: "I'm always worried before we look at the numbers...