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It's a Laptop - It's a Desktop

Posted by michael on 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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  1. It's a Laptop, it's a Desktop... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...it's a dessert topping!

  2. So it's a laptop by fuzzix · · 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.

  3. Transformers by orpheus2000 · · 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 · · 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]

  4. Wow! by jetkust · · Score: 5, Funny

    A desktop computer at the price of a laptop! Where can I buy!!?

  5. Transformers by martinthebrit · · Score: 4, Funny

    I want the one that transforms into Optimus Prime.

  6. Re:Am I the only one that... by dlur · · 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...
    --
    Duris MUD - The best pkill MUD. Ever.
  7. "hollowed halls" by ecloud · · 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.