The reason I'm an I.B.M.-type guy today is that I really needed a laptop back in 1986, and I just couldn't wait for the Powerbook.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm pretty rough on my laptops. I go through about two a year.
I remember having computers at my parents' house growing up. We had different desktop PCs, but my first laptop was an IBM ThinkPad laptop. It was big, bulky, slow and terrible.
With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that's going to expand.
The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.
I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school.
I have used Lenovo since I wrote my first novel. My old laptop broke, so I bought a new one, but still a Lenovo. It is one of my most essential devices.
Growing up, I wish that I'd had the supplies and laptops and all the new technology that's out right now.
My favorite computer of all time? The Apple II that got me started, of course.
I bought a laptop in 1999, and it was quite liberating, because I could make a lot of my own decisions.