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By Arimasa Naitoh,William Holstein

The ThinkPad laptop computer has been on the heart of the electronic revolution that has remodeled hundreds of thousands of lives all over the world, permitting clients to acquire entry to their records, images and different own information from almost wherever at any time. greater than a hundred million ThinkPads were offered in view that they have been brought in 1992, a few twenty-five years in the past. ThinkPads performed a well known function in NASA's house exploration and on the foreign area Station. They observed explorers who traversed the complete size of the Nile River and conquered Mount Everest. ThinkPads additionally performed a huge function in altering the very structure of the way humanity's wisdom is saved and made available.

In this ebook, Arimasa Naitoh, the daddy of the ThinkPad, collaborates with American company journalist and writer William J. Holstein to put in writing candidly concerning the fantastic technological and private struggles he and fellow engineers confronted. And he bargains his imaginative and prescient of the way forward for cellular computing—because this revolution isn't even on the subject of being finished.

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