“For many people, especially those in New York right now dealing with various public transportation nightmares, traveling by train can be an excruciating experience,” Lauren Messman reports for Vice. “The threat of train derailments, delays, or stumbling upon a gruesome wildlife scene can become even more unbearable when you’re also lugging around 35 pounds of luggage.”
“But not for one heroic woman in the UK who upgraded her train experience by setting up her very own home office in a moving car, an act that caught the attention of a few fellow (possibly jealous) passengers,” Messman reports. “On Tuesday, Austin, Texas, native David Hill snapped a picture of the ambitious mystery woman on his Virgin London-bound train, who, rather than pull out a laptop, set up a full desktop iMac, complete with mouse and keyboard.”
A lady has brought her iMac onto the train! Has she not heard of a laptop?? wtf!!! pic.twitter.com/zC3wNw7Yhv
— David Hill (@davidhill_co) July 4, 2017
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Wha?
Interns: TTK! ASAP!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “BD” for the heads up.]
Just like where an iPad is no replacement for a laptop, a laptop is no replacement for a desktop.
I’ll take a desktop over a laptop (or iPad) any day, but wow!
Finally a reason for a slim desktop!
Contrary to what you might expect, getting your truck on a train isn’t that hard.
They make bags.
http://www.ilugger.com/product/detail.cfm?pid=40029
https://www.etsy.com/listing/451907942/lavolta-carrying-case-bag-for-apple-imac
That’s a 1st Class compartment and the Virgin ‘Pendalino’ trains are long distance (200-400 miles)(yeah, I know), from Liverpool-London, Glasgow-London or Edinburgh-London).
Taking your iMac? That’s luxury!!!
Commute different.
Okay, so where did she plug it in?
Not sure about the UK but in Japan the luxury/green cars on the Express trains (shinkansen) have power outlets available for use by passengers.
Many UK trains have power sockets by the seats. They are also often found on buses and coaches and free WiFi is commonly offered too. I often travel from Oxford to London by coach ( £14 return fare for 60 mile journey ) and each seat has a mains socket and a USB power outlet, although the USB outlets are proving to be fragile and unreliable. Our local buses running between towns also offer WiFi and charging points.
cool.
These days, I bring my own USB battery power source. Hacking USB is dirt easy these days, making public USB ports fairly dangerous.
I also bring a small surge protector to use when connecting to any mains power.
… these days. <–Injecting caffeine NOW.
I’ve heard of that type of hack and make sure I use a power-only USB cable on the rare occasion I charge in public.
I recently read about ‘USB Condoms’. (I think Steve Gibson starting using the term in 2015). Inexpensive. Useful, if you’re traveling and use random USB sources for power wherever you are:
PortaPow Fast Charge + Data Block USB Adaptor with SmartCharge Chip (2 Pack)
$8 ea. $13 for 2. Further discounts for lots up to 50.
The most current USB attack of computers is via e-cigarettes/vape-pens. They can be physically hacked to add a chip that communicates with computers. Charge them up via a computer’s USB port, they infect and pwn it. Computer cancer. Yet another reason to avoid nicotine addiction. 🤢😵💀
It’s Possible (and Fairly Easy) to Hack a PC With a Vape Pen
Researchers are warning that e-cigarettes can be modified, without a ton of effort, to infect a victim’s PC with malware.
She had a heck of a long extension cord!… Rimshot.
Lady got style for miles.
And she’s talking on her phone! Idiot.
Wow! Pretty classy. Though I think she needs a new keyboard. At least she’s talking on her pink iPhone.
Clearly, that’s not an iMac keyboard.
Clearly, that’s not an iMac keyboard,
Stock iMac keyboards suck which is why she probably replaced it with that one.
I don’t believe it; She’s been Photoshopped in!
Sshh… Don’t tell Rob Enderle. He’ll have a fit about it.
I think of Rob Enderle as covered with cobwebs.
I don’t think anyone else even remembers what’s his name Rob whatever
Perhaps she was relocating..one way trip..and was like “what the hell..why not” while simultaneously preventing baggage handlers from cracking the screen while tossing it into the luggage bay. This is a real train..not a subway.
In the dark days when Microsoft ruled the earth,before the 10 lb Mac Portable existed, people like myself used to lug our Mac SE around in a big padded case. With all the stuff you’d put in, that easily weighed 20 lbs, and you lugged it on your shoulder! I used to lug it onto a train from Beijing to Hong Kong and back quite regularly. That’s 30+ hrs one-way! And the power fluctuations would make the power supply sing in agony. Closest I came to doing what that lady did was to plug my SE in while waiting for a flight. Can you imagine how few outlets there were back then? At least no smartphones , so no fighting for the few outlets. Those were the days.
Yup, I remember those days. It was late 80’s and I personally could not afford any computer at the time but my lawyer friends were lugging those Mac Plus or SE around. Quite frequent scenes.
Some decades later, my laptop went pong just before I was going to leave for an out of town trip, and I had no hesitation to pack up a set of Mac Mini with Apple magic keyboard, mouse and a cheap 21″ Phillips monitor. It was not as bad as I initially was afraid of.
Ahem…
The original Mac Portable was 16+ pounds with its lead-acid battery — almost the same weight as a Mac Plus. It was just in a smaller, somewhat more portable form factor. We used to call it (and the Mac Plus and the Mac SE) “luggables” back then.
One of the “features” of the original Mac was the carrying case.
Somebody voted down a fact.
Here’s to the crazy ones…
Caption: Another day, another train to London……
well for some women size IS important.
It’s not that unusual in my opinion. I’ve dragged around my old iMac to my local Starbucks before, using a wheeled-suitcase.
Zoom in and you will see 2 things:
1. She’s on google search
2. There are no items in her tray that can’t be run from a
Laptop or iPad.
By the way name one program that I can’t run on my laptop.
The real statement should be, “Name one program that I cannot reasonably run on my laptop.”
I’ll name two… (both need to be run under BootCamp or such)
1) Analytical Graphics’ Systems Took Kit when running Comms, Coverage, and Analyzer
2) ESRI’s full ENVI software suite.
I know from experience when doing anything significant in either of these (e.g., analyzing a simulation of a communications mesh network of unmanned aerial vehicles [UAVs] in flight with associated ground nodes too in STK) will bring a maxed out 2016 MacBook Pro to its knees, and since the most recent 2017 MacBook Pro is not that much faster they’ll almost certainly do the same to the most recent, top end MacBook Pro.
While the maxed out 2016 MacBook Pro does not crash with either, it can take HOURS on that laptop to run such simulations when I’m on the road.
So there are at least two programs that cannot *reasonably* run on the fastest Mac laptop shipping today. (Unfortunately, it’s sad to say that the top end iMacs of today won’t do well either. I’m just hoping the next Mac Pro will get the job done well and fast.)
If only Apple made a 17″ version, she wouldn’t have had to do this!
They did make a 17” iMac *facepalm*
Apple shipped a 17″ laptop for a few years. It didn’t sell as well as the 15″ and smaller and got axed. Apple then went in the opposite direction with the introduction of the Air.