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Collateral Tablet PC gets noticed

Many people are noticing the little computer Tom Cruise uses in the movie Collateral is a Tablet PC–an HP TC1100 to be exact. Looks like this product placement has payed off big time.

Here are some of the hits I found on Google this morning by searching Collateral movie “Tablet PC”.

CNet artcle on Tablet PC in movie

Chris on TabletQuestions notices the Tablet PC

DesignTechnica wonders what the tiny computer was.

Movie reviewer critiques use of a Tablet as a plot device

And, yes, for a short time you could get one of the actual Tablet PCs used in the movie. This one was picked up for a slim $610. Not bad.

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Loren
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Loren Heiny (1961 - 2010) was a software developer and author of several computer language textbooks. He graduated from Arizona State University in computer science. His first love was robotics.

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