It's a Laptop - It's a Desktop

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It's a Laptop - It's a Desktop

Posted by michael on Friday September 19, 2003 @01:02AM from the leap-tall-buildings dept.

pcman cuts and pastes: "Amidst the hollowed halls and exhibition floor of the Jacob Javits Center here, one beacon of innovation shone brightly at the TechXNY trade show. At a time when even the show's keynote speakers failed to generate headlines, IBM showed off the might of its design savoir-faire akin to the European assault on the Big Three automakers by German designers and engineer."

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It's a Laptop, it's a Desktop... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-19 01:04 · Score: 4, Funny

...it's a dessert topping!
So it's a laptop by fuzzix · 2003-09-19 01:05 · Score: 3, Funny

which can be configured to take up more of my desk space?
How useful. Excuse me while I rush out to purchase one.
Transformers by orpheus2000 · 2003-09-19 01:06 · Score: 5, Funny

I'm getting two, an IBM and Dell, and then I'm putting an autobot sign on my IBM and a decepticon on my Dell. At night, they'll battle for supremecy!
1. Re:Transformers by kurosawdust · 2003-09-19 02:06 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  OK Check it...hook them both up to a network and load SETI@Home on each. Then write a script that will check at the end of the day which of them has completed more SETI units and have that one play some trash-talking sound files to the other. (bonus points if you work some lego mindstorms in there to actually physically whoop up on the lesser computer)
  [Super bonus points if you get one of them to change into an eighteen-wheeler and star in a cartoon]
Re:This looks cool, but... by whiteranger99x · 2003-09-19 01:08 · Score: 2, Funny

...as a constant laptop user, I'm not sure I like the concept of having the thing able to break into pieces by design.

Lemme guess, you dont have kids, do you? ;)

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Wow! by jetkust · 2003-09-19 01:21 · Score: 5, Funny

A desktop computer at the price of a laptop! Where can I buy!!?
From the article by Hieronymus+Howard · 2003-09-19 01:26 · Score: 1, Funny

The article claims that this is a radically new design that allows them to fold the laptop into a notebook replacement.

Wow! A laptop PC that turns into a notebook PC. This must surely win Big Blue the 'Microsoft Award for Great Innovation'.

HH
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Transformers by martinthebrit · 2003-09-19 01:28 · Score: 4, Funny

I want the one that transforms into Optimus Prime.
Re:Am I the only one that... by dlur · 2003-09-19 01:40 · Score: 4, Funny

It's also nice when the screen isn't at the same height as your nipples (applies to all sexes).
Why on earth would a 70 year old lady want to have the screen down by her knees? Don't you realize that old ladies have sagging eyesight as well as sagging...

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Re:Am I the only one that... by los+furtive · 2003-09-19 02:22 · Score: 2, Funny

Why on earth would a 70 year old lady want to have the screen down by her knees?

Let me add some emphasis to my previous comment:
It's also nice when the screen isn't at the same height as your nipples (applies to all sexes).

I liked the sagging eyesight part, funny :-)

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It's a laptop, it's a desktop, it's...**SNORE** by mb12036 · 2003-09-19 03:41 · Score: 2, Funny

In other exciting news, cell phones now have color screens. Isn't technology grand?!?!
"hollowed halls" by ecloud · 2003-09-19 03:45 · Score: 3, Funny

A hall must be hollow,
It's not hard to swallow;
'Cuz if it's not hollow,
It isn't a hall.

Methinks that rather
If t'were solid, I'd gather
It doesn't matter --
'Tis worth nothing at all.

To have a convention
You need the invention
Of walls for retention
Of a roof over all;

A solid block of concrete
Is useless, it can't compete;
Facilities you need replete...
You really need a hall.