ThinkPads on TV and in Movies

[pianowizard]

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

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[JHEM]

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

Yes, the year you graduated doesn't matter, an alumnus is an alumnus.

It's always best to check with any alumni associations you may belong to for deals on Thinkpads, or check with the school's store.

James

[Temetka]

I could have sworn I saw some IBM gear in 'Children of Men' (awesome movie btw).

[schen]

I ran across an interesting little tidbit (especially for you guys that are into collecting older TPs), while reading about Robert Hanssen. I recently watched the movie Breach and was motivated to do a little research on the spy that was supposedly responsible for the worse espionage disaster in American history. At least one of the article I read claims that he did most of his personal computing work (as in letters to the KGB, etc.) on an IBM ThinkPad 365E!

[Tholek]

I love to see TP's in space on the shuttle. I went slightly nuts thinking I saw my 760 on the shuttle. Only when I was able to confirm they used them, did I become sane again.

[Techgurl]

Yes every time they show the inside of the Shuttle during flight on TV they are always sitting around Thinkpads.

[Cheesemanx]

A friend of mine works in flight control for Nasa and they have more than one up in space. Here last count was three on the ISS on of them is an A22m (my friend made note because she is going to buy one of Nasa's left overs).

Side note here; man it would be cool to say my laptop has been in space.

[Melvyn]

The IT Crowd guys uses IBM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_crowd[/url]

[pianowizard]

I'm rewatching the 1997 movie "Contact" and 35 minutes 30 seconds into the movie, Jodie Foster is seen using a Thinkpad.

[carbon_unit]

I was watching "Tiger Team" on court TV last night and I noticed that use Lenovo Thinkpads for their computers. I didn't catch the exact model but they were widescreen units.
Tiger Team is a new show about security penetration testing on high profile businesses.

[pvna]

There's a ThinkPad in the great South Korean movie Oldboy by Park Chan-wook. In one scene you can see a detail shot of the keyboard with the TrackPoint.

/off topic:
Why can't you find this thread via Google? Seems like it isn't indexed by the search engine.

[sparta.rising]

A friend of mine works in flight control for Nasa and they have more than one up in space. Here last count was three on the ISS on of them is an A22m (my friend made note because she is going to buy one of Nasa's left overs).

Side note here; man it would be cool to say my laptop has been in space.

A lot of people will see NASA pictures of the space shuttle and ISS and wonder why they have 8 year old computers instead of the latest and greatest and chock it up to NASA being behind the times or budget constraints. Its actually because NASA requires a lengthy time for computer parts to be "radiation hardened" to be used as official equipment. I forget the exact time but its somewhere around 5-6 years. But astronauts are allowed to bring personal computers for personal use, you often see Dells up there (and I thought astronauts had to be smart).

[denisky]

I was watching 2010 movie Green Zone and in the end of the movie, I noticed that the Wall Street Journal correspondent Lawrie Dayne (Amy Ryan) uses a Thinkpad when she's checking her incoming mail from main character, Roy Miller (Matt Damon). I assumed she uses the 15" XGA, 4:3 screen ratio, R60 model with the old IBM logo. CMIIW.

There's another scene that shows the other people in her office also use Thinkpads.

[netzspannung]

Mission Impossible, the first one. Tom Cruise uses a 701C

Those were the years ...

This topic is endless

[rossmosis]

Just got Netflix and they stream The Office (US) on it and I'm on the second episode of season 2 (never seen any newer episodes, I like to watch sitcoms in order) and I see that they switched from Dell to IBM ThinkCentres. I dunno if they stick with IBM throughout the series or show any ThinkPads, but I thought it was noteworthy enough to put in this thread, the monitors/CPUs are very prominent throughout each episode.

*edit
about 5 episodes later i noticed they switched to gateway, i'll keep ya posted! i wonder why they change computers so much, hopefully they go back to the good kind in the future

**edit
now they have HP computers! when will this madness end ?

[LegendaryKA8]

Another small bump. On Spike's Ultimate Warrior series I've seen newer ThinkPads being used. Given the nature of the data crunching for that show(pitting two groups of famous combatants together in a fictional simulated battle and seeing who would win; the one I saw featured the IRA versus Taliban fighters), I'm suspecting the ones I've seen are W500/W510s. Pretty neat find.

[rossmosis]

On the Today show a few days ago they had a segment about how Meredith Viera isn't very good with technology, so they showed her how to put pictures on a laptop from a camera, edit them, etc all using a ThinkPad prominently shown on the screen. Pretty cool.

[JaneL]

I saw that and was glad to see the logo show up so clearly!

[thePCxp]

On the Bravo TV series Flipping Out, Jeff Lewis uses a ThinkPad on season 3 (It's a T60 widescreen). On the Food Network TV series Barefoot Contessa, Ina Garten (and her husband Jeffrey) uses a ThinkPad (a 15" T61) on some episodes that aired between 2008 and 2009. Some episodes are "Chicken All The Time", "Say Cheese", "The Magic Factor", "Cocktail Hour", "Food With Love", "Thanksgiving Countdown", "Steak and Sides", and "Oven Rules".

On the Today show a few days ago they had a segment about how Meredith Viera isn't very good with technology, so they showed her how to put pictures on a laptop from a camera, edit them, etc all using a ThinkPad prominently shown on the screen. Pretty cool.

I saw that too and I even Tweeted about it. That was really cool!

Another small bump. On Spike's Ultimate Warrior series I've seen newer ThinkPads being used. Given the nature of the data crunching for that show(pitting two groups of famous combatants together in a fictional simulated battle and seeing who would win; the one I saw featured the IRA versus Taliban fighters), I'm suspecting the ones I've seen are W500/W510s. Pretty neat find.

I should've watched that show a long time ago! (Someone in my household watches that show.)

[billp117]

Movie: Green Zone...being used by the Wall Street Journal reporter.

[rossmosis]

During the Packers game tonight there was a commercial advertising some kinda NFL thing on the internet, and they were using a ThinkPad! Looked like a T series from a few years ago. Pretty cool, and very prominent on the screen.

[hunterman223]

This past saturday there was a football game, MN Vikings vs Seattle Seahawks. One of the commercials was for some NFL thing where you can watch the game online, and the guy in the ad was sitting on the couch watching the game on his T60, complete with lenovo logo on screen bezel. I also see them a lot on shows on the TNT channel, like law and order or NCIS.

Lenovo doesn't put out a whole lot of tv commercials do they. I don't think I have seen any, actually.

[fatpolomanjr]

I saw one on a trailer for The Expendables on youtube at 0m44s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6RU5y2fU6s#t=0m44s. I think it's an X60. Man I want a Thinkpad...

[LegendaryKA8]

Nope, not an X60. Looks like a 15" T4x of some sort. Nice to see the Flexview get some screen time.

[fatpolomanjr]

Dang. 15"? Gosh my proportions are way off haha.

[frankiepankie]

I am watching Home Alone 3 at the moment (the Dutch TV companies always broadcast these movies in the Christmas period) and in the beginning of the movie, where the bad boys disable the telephone line, the guy in the car was using a ThinkPad.

It was a older generation Thinkpad, i guess something like 7xx or 6x series

[ansible212]

There appears to be a ThinkPad in the Social Network (good film, BTW).

[Utwig]

In Paprika (animated) the boss has a Thinkpad together with Sapper's Tizio lamp on his desk (about 10 minutes into the film). The cop also uses a Thinkpad.

[LegendaryKA8]

Bumping up this topic with another sighting... it took me a while to identify this. Burn Notice, Season 4, Episode 13. Not to provide spoilers, but the main character, Michael Westen, uses what looks like a 15.4" T61 to do some spy work. I thought it was a T500 at first, but the USB port placement is different.

[t140568]

There's a documentary on Netflix about Google... Thinkpads GALORE! Of course, that's not too surprising. Also, in "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" (Swedish? German? version w/English subtitles) on Netflix there's a TP in the opening scene.