Here’s a quiz question that might stump you…how can you tell the difference between someone who lives/works/plays/learns at Harvard Law School and someone who is just visiting?

Give up?

The people who stay are the ones with the PowerBooks and the ThinkPads. The ones who are just visiting have Dells, or Toshibas, or Sonys. You look around the room and every student has a black ThinkPad, and the “adults” are pretty evenly split between 12″ and 15″ PowerBooks and ThinkPads. That’s it. Nothing else.

I’ve been contemplating trading in my lovable but slightly older PowerBook in favor of a smaller, longer-battery-having, cheaper iBook that I’d be less concerned about being banging around and possibly destroying. But I’m starting to wonder if having an iBook at HLS would make me completely out of place. Do I need to keep the PowerBook just to keep up appearances?

One has to ponder these things…