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Panasonic Toughbook CF-30 What's the point in climbing Everest if you can't blog from the summit? An ordinary laptop would freeze up in the extreme cold, but the Panasonic Toughbook CF-30 ($3,200) can operate in temperatures ranging from -4°F to 140°F (-20°C to 60°C). Bashed around by scientists to ensure that it meets U.S. military standards, it's also guaranteed to work after a fall from up to 3 ft. (0.9 m). www.panasonic.com...
...magnified a thousandfold through online postings, message boards, YouTube and even the mainstream media when a seemingly ordinary dispute spiraled. In one notable consumer revolt in 2005, media pundit Jeff Jarvis used his popular blog BuzzMachine to chastise Dell founder Michael Dell on the quality of the company's laptop and customer service. A legion of other dissatisfied customers piled on. The resulting consumer firestorm damaged the brand name, writes Blackshaw: "A swarm of digital termites ended up eating away at the reputation Dell had spent countless millions of dollars to create...
...down at last at my laptop, and suddenly I could write. I was no longer tied down by the fetters of the literary greats, who have haunted me for the past so many years. I was no longer judging every measly line I wrote against a chapter of Tolstoy or Proust. Fiction became a fun and easy process, and I could finally let myself write confidently the way I felt comfortable writing...
...first class when you're stealing bandwidth. Wi-fi hot spots are large--about the size of a football field--but those signals had to pass through a lot of masonry before they got to my laptop. Wi-fi operates on an unlicensed frequency, so it has to deal with interference from baby monitors and microwave ovens and cordless phones too. As a result, my Internet access would vanish and reappear like a will-o'-the-wisp, even when I engaged OS X's excitingly named "interference robustness" feature. I always seemed to lose connectivity just when I was about...
With little in the way of furniture, hotels of both brands have reallocated money ordinarily spent on bureaus and armoires--where traditional hotels hide the TVs--toward spalike bathrooms and custom mattresses. Flat-screen TVs duplicate home-entertainment centers--guests can hook up their laptop or iPod to watch movies or rehearse PowerPoint presentations. High ceilings and oversize windows in the 275-to-325-sq.-ft. Aloft rooms make the room feel more spacious. NYLO's rooms have brick walls and concrete floors to create an urban-loft experience--and reduce cleaning costs...