Word: laptopping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Weiser cited the prevalence of laptop theft oncampus as an example of the crimes Princeton hopesto prevent with locked dormitories...
Another innovative young college woman has her 3D screen-saver trumpet the date of her next glorious reunion with her boyfriend. The screen-saver simply flashes "Jason is coming to visit me" while gyrating giddily on the screen of her laptop. The best thing about the screen-saver-boyfriend-reminder is that any visitors, and of course every roommate, knows immediately that there is an impending visit from your special someone...
...Working at home for me has been wonderful," says Comes, who has now been with the high-tech company for 18 years. "I know my mom is O.K., and this allows me to focus on doing my job better." Armed with a laptop PC, an all-in-one fax machine and printers, e-mail, conference-calling capacity and other gear, Comes is able to keep in touch with her colleagues and perform her job of developing and analyzing software from her home. It helps that she works for a computer company--her Hewlett-Packard equipment can be updated regularly with...
...what about people who aren't so blessed as to work for the best darn company in the world? Laptops constitute the fastest-growing sector of the computer market, and last year Big Blue undertook the most extensive consumer-research campaign in ThinkPad's six-year history to try to figure out who's buying them. It discovered a new class of information worker: mobile folks who buy their own gear. These consumers work at small start-ups. They're college students. They're even people who like to telecommute, but from the sofa rather than the home office. Some...
...cheapest model, will give good value if you're slightly mobile and even mostly immobile, bound to a couch or just looking for a second PC to knock around the house with. Best news for consumers: IBM isn't the only PC maker that has identified the low-end laptop market. Let the lap wars begin...