At the first few industry conferences I attended, I sometimes caught the other attendees and reporters staring at my laptop. It was clearly a relic from another era—perhaps the same era that spawned the boom box or even the one when 8-track tapes were still cool.
But now the 10-pound laptop is gone. My new one could be lifted with one finger. Almost. It’s certainly as THIN as a finger, even with the lid closed.
This wisp of a sleek, black machine fits right in with my desk setup: a peripheral keyboard, docking station, mouse, speakers, a phone whose ring sounds like Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry voice, and two flat-screen monitors.
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