ThinkPads on TV and in Movies

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dsigma6 · #31 Post by **dsigma6** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 9:42 pm

AlphaKilo470 wrote:...relabeled G4 and shot down the crapper.

Except for Olivia Munn on Attack of the Show.

Disclaimer: I did have to find their website, search to find the name of the show and look up the girl's name. I am not that much of a tool.

dsigma6 · #32 Post by **dsigma6** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 3:34 pm

There was a movie on a muted TV at the bar last night- I think it was Cruel Intentions. I believe I saw the ThinkPad logo on the back of the LCD lid. I'm surprised I remembered that!

Website · #33 Post by **tfflivemb2** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 4:28 pm

dsigma6 wrote:<snip>...at the bar last night...<snip>...I'm surprised I remembered that!

Me too!!

pvna · #34 Post by **pvna** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 9:57 pm

The End of Violence (Germany/USA, 1997, Wim Wenders) (imdb)

The movie is a little bit 'slow' and boring.
One of the highlights was the ... ThinkPad
(?, if it is a ThinkPad, my eyes are bad,
can't read the logo and I am not familiar with them)

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/5105/v ... 537sx5.jpg

Keyboard - Detail, 1
Keyboard - Detail, 2

Display
Display - Detail, 1
Display - Detail, 2

Workingplace, 1
Workingplace, 2

Someone knows, which ThinkPad / IBM Laptop it is?

dsigma6 · #35 Post by **dsigma6** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 10:03 pm

For those in the Philadelphia area, Rick Williams on 6ABC had a ThinkPad in plain view while anchoring the news this evening.

Coathanger · #36 Post by **Coathanger** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 5:32 am

During a meeting scene near the start of "In Good Company", everyone around the conference table has a ThinkPad, with the logos fairly visible.

There is also a BlackBerry on display.

dsigma6 · #37 Post by **dsigma6** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 8:09 am

pvna wrote: Someone knows, which ThinkPad / IBM Laptop it is?

Hey it's that guy from a bunch of movies...name unknown!

I don't know old ThinkPads, but it has characteristics of the 700 series. Minus the extra contrast control on the LCD bezel...and the floppy/thickness in the front.

epbrown · #38 Post by **epbrown** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 2:16 am

Definitely a late-90s vintage 700-series, like a 755 or 760. It's got that keyboard that tilts up at the back, which I remember from those models.

#39 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 2:35 am

It's a 760 series. The 760/765 is the only laptop from IBM to have the tilt up keyboard.

Website · #40 Post by **tfflivemb2** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 8:08 am

If it's just they keyboard that's tilted (and not the entire computer), then it's a 760 or 765. If the screen is 12", 11.3" or 10.1" with the IBM logo to the top right of the panel, it's a 760. If the screen is 13" and the logo is under the screen towards the left, it's a 765. The 765 also has a harder to see contrast control.

covertash · #41 Post by **covertash** » Sun Nov 12, 2006 5:48 pm

I was watching House, M.D. and I noticed in the first season, episode 21 - the one where House was giving a lecture on diagnostics with Carmen Electra as a guest star

- where one of the students in the audience has a Thinkpad! It may be a T4X series.

dsigma6 · #42 Post by **dsigma6** » Sun Nov 12, 2006 6:26 pm

darn, at first it seemed like a cool thing when I found a ThinkPad on TV...now it's just about every day.

There is a Courtyard by Marriott commercial that features a ThinkPad, amongst others.

#43 Post by **JHEM** » Sun Nov 12, 2006 6:44 pm

Matt Roilof was using one on his show the other night.

James

Melvyn · #44 Post by **Melvyn** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 6:20 pm

I'm surprising because nobody take note or suspect about marketing. Also, I'm suprised because nobody have mentioned Dell.

Maybe, Apple and Dell take 50% and 40% of the pie, and the rest is distributed along Thinkpads, HP, and so on.

Anyways, you see a lot of Macs and Dells because they PAY to be there. As you can see with Nokia in some movies, or Motorla in others.

National Treasure used a lot of HP's.

Don't you notice that maybe Mac or Dell pay to be there?

Maybe, when some productor need a couple of them call an assitant who turn around, look for them "for a while" and go with them back.

dsigma6 · #45 Post by **dsigma6** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 8:15 am

Melvyn wrote:I'm surprising because nobody take note or suspect about marketing. Also, I'm suprised because nobody have mentioned Dell.

Your breakthrough was discussed on the first page of this topic.

gearguy · #46 Post by **gearguy** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 12:54 pm

JHEM wrote:
christopher_wolf wrote:IRT Mac's in popular television; more of a design choice than anything else given that the major decision people go by is that they look nice (The iCandy Effect) and are, hence, asethetically appealing in most well lit studios and sets for upbeat sitcoms.
It comes down to dollars and cents.

Jobs has always been more generous with "donating" computers to Hollywood than any of the other manufacturers, particularly IBM.

James

And Also because many consider Apple's Final Cut to be the best video editing suite (Most film studios don't rely on cutting and sticking together strips of film anymore).

An oldschool IBM Thinkpad appears in Goldeneye. :p Back when the IBM logo was all-white on the laptop's surface.

#47 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 5:17 pm

The logo was never all white on the surface. Even the original ThinkPads from 1992 had either an RGB or blue logo.

gearguy · #48 Post by **gearguy** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 5:58 am

AlphaKilo470 wrote:The logo was never all white on the surface. Even the original ThinkPads from 1992 had either an RGB or blue logo.

Well it must have been blue then but the way it's captured it looks white.

If you know what I mean (You know how TVs don't give 100% colour accuracy) but it was a black rubberized laptop with an IBM logo in the corner

You also happen to know it is an IBM as IBM has several plugs throughout goldeneye.

#49 Post by **JHEM** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 9:06 am

AlphaKilo470 wrote:The logo was never all white on the surface. Even the original ThinkPads from 1992 had either an RGB or blue logo.

The monochrome logo indicated a Thinkpad with a monochrome display, the RGB logo indicated a Thinkpad with a color display.

James

#50 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 1:17 pm

gearguy wrote:If you know what I mean (You know how TVs don't give 100% colour accuracy) but it was a black rubberized laptop with an IBM logo in the corner You also happen to know it is an IBM as IBM has several plugs throughout goldeneye.

You're right, IBM really had some marketing in that movie. Wasn't there an OS/2 logo on Boris' computer screen at the end when he got covered in freon (or whatever chemical he was frozen by) right after yelling about how invincible he was?

mmmkay · #51 Post by **mmmkay** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 2:29 am

Spotted a Powerbook and what appeared to be a widescreen Thinkpad in the live-action Death Note movie from Japan.

Based on the manga or the anime, I dunno which one.

What I found interested was that when they were cracking into the computer they logged in as root, rather than how they do it in other movies which makes it oh-so-lame.

Purcy · #52 Post by **Purcy** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 7:09 pm

I also see them time to time on Law & Order, SVU - when one of the specialist lab techs swing them around to show the detectives the fantastic evidence he just uncovered for them, so very serious and important. That's why I own a Thinkpad

#53 Post by **draco2527** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 10:17 pm

Well...not a movie, but...

The economy is so bad in MI, that they had a special on the Google office located in Ann Arbor, MI during the local news (they are moving to a bigger location and will be hiring 1000 people in the next 2 years) and all I could see inside the Google office...Thinkpad's..T4X models it seems...

Also, I have been forced to watch "Legally Blonde" and the law students all have TP's...except for an orange i-book

dsigma6 · #54 Post by **dsigma6** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 10:32 pm

draco2527 wrote:Also, I have been forced to watch "Legally Blonde"...

Speaking of which...I had the pleasure of watching "A Lot Like Love" with Ashton Kutcher tonight. My girlfriend didn't seem interested when I randomly blurted out "That's a ThinkPad!!!" but I surely was. At first it was only the mouse buttons, but in a later scene, the extended edge on the top of the lcd looked like a T4X. That would make sense considering the movie came out in 2005.

Either way, it was the highlight of the movie.

christopher_wolf · #55 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 10:46 pm

Well, in the game Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, the laptop 47 uses to contact the agency actually seems to have been derived from a Thinkpad, a T2X I think noting the lack of TrackPad as well as the coloration on the buttons and the ports on the back.

dsigma6 · #56 Post by **dsigma6** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 11:16 pm

Wolf plays video games? Whoda thunkit?

anthean · #57 Post by **anthean** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 11:47 pm

dsigma6 wrote:My girlfriend didn't seem interested when I randomly blurted out "That's a ThinkPad!!!"

Yeah, I too have noticed that unfortunately, not everyone shares my devotion.

Watched "Syriana" Wednesday night, and the lawyers use Thinkpads.

dsigma6 · #58 Post by **dsigma6** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 11:51 pm

Ahh, Clooney and his...well, "stuff."

Not that my comment makes sense or anything.

pianowizard · #59 Post by **pianowizard** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 11:59 pm

draco2527 wrote:Also, I have been forced to watch "Legally Blonde" and the law students all have TP's...except for an orange i-book

It makes sense because the Harvard computer store sells mainly Thinkpads, with great discounts. The best thing is, as an alum, I can still get Thinkpads and many other items available on Lenovo.com at very good prices.

dsigma6 · #60 Post by **dsigma6** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 1:14 pm

pianowizard wrote:The best thing is, as an alum, I can still get Thinkpads and many other items available on Lenovo.com at very good prices.

Think that'd still fly for someone who graduated there in '92?

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