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When I got my svelte, 4-lb. IBM Thinkpad last year, it made my old Mac PowerBook look obese. At 7 lbs., the Mac was a laptop in the same way that a bull mastiff is a lapdog. You need a pretty big lap. But my ThinkPad was so small and powerful, I figured I'd take it everywhere. On the train, Mr. Productivity would write his columns, answer his e-mail and even "test" a game...
Replogle says she is so self-conscious about her Powerbook that she sometimes feels guilty using it even when no one else is around. And Peggy H. Nguyen '94, who uses her Powerbook to take notes in lecture, says some students purposely avoid sitting next to her because she is carrying a Powerbook...
...Sydney J. Freedberg '95, another Powerbook user, says such cold-shoulder treatment isn't much of a problem. "One person once in lecture said I was typing too loud, so I stopped typing so loud," Freedberg says. "It wasn't dramatic...
Widener Library encourages Powerbook users to work at the east end of the reading room, and Hilles Library relegates laptop users to the typing rooms on the first, second and third floors...
Whatever the side effects, it's clear that academic life will never be the same. Janna J. Hansen '97 says that sometimes when an error appears on her screen, her Powerbook 165c will embarrass her by yelping a programmed message--"moose caboose!"--out into the silence of the library...