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Gothamist debate on Laptops on the Subway

Posted on April 18, 2006 by
Subwaymac2_1

My lil post today about “Mac’in on the R Train” made it onto the Gothamist blog (one of my favs). Thanks, Jen!

It set off a debate about whether or not its safe to use your laptop on the subway. Of the 24 comments, 16 thought it was a bad idea with only 4 indicating that they thought it was pretty safe. Several folks noted that it was just pretentious to pull out your computer and work on the train. A brief flamewar broke out over whether or not you could effectively “lo jack” your computer.

My favorite comment:

Being a lifelong New Yorker, and chinese, I have one thing to say to those of you who get your laptops stolen on the subway: Hwo Gai.

Which I believe roughly translates as “may misfortune befall you.”

My own take is that a laptop is:

  1. fragile,
  2. expensive,
  3. and large.

Which in my book is not a good combination for displaying it on a city subway.

1 thought on “Gothamist debate on Laptops on the Subway”

  1. Rocknrope says:
    June 24, 2006 at 9:26 am

    Haha, that was my comment Rik. Glad you liked it!

    Reply

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