Word: laptops
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Glue his laptop to the table...
...returned home to discover my family in a similar state of pique. My sister-in-law sat behind her laptop, sending off an e-mail petition against the film to half of Tehran, while my husband leafed through a book on the Achaemenid Empire, noting that Herodotus had estimated the Persian army at 120,000 men, not one million as the film claimed. The morning newspaper lay on the table with the headline "300 AGAINST 70 MILLION!" (the population of the country). It was echoed by the evening news: "Hollywood has opened a new front in the war against Iran...
Given her enthusiasm, it comes as no surprise when Rodriguez says she works at MobiTV for the people. She has fed off the excitement of the start-up since the day she came to work, her laptop and mobile phone in tow. Her work ethic, she says, comes from her entrepreneurial family and a father who has done everything from construction to property development. Having grown up on a ranch as the youngest of five, she jokes that she was on the family payroll...
Apple embraced this trend in a self-consciously ironic way. Its popular commercials pit a creative twenty-something (Mac) against a dumpy, unimaginative middle-aged man (PC). Their interactions constantly conclude that the Mac laptop fits an urbane, exciting lifestyle—though with a reassuring wink to consumers, so as to not presume that the ad actually sells you. But the message is clear: Personality is an extension of where you swipe your credit card...
...officer was dispatched to take a report of a stolen black IBM Thinkpad T-60 laptop valued at $2,000 and a green and crimson Lehman Brothers backpack valued at $15 that contained a genetics textbook, a silver Cingular LG cell phone, and a white coat. At 10:27 p.m. the laptop and backpack were recovered...