The new Surface 2 must help establish Microsoft as an OEM of note, drive revenue for the company, slow the sagging of the PC market as a whole, and, just to add to the pressure on the little computer, prop up half of Microsoft's recent OS bet.
We can all point to behaviour that wastes energy – not switching off lights or computers, propping doors open, or my personal favourite: running a fan heater under your desk when the air conditioning gets too cold.
He read their comments while sprawled on a hotel bed, wearing gym shorts and a T-shirt, tapping on a computer while propped up on his elbows.
All events will take place in the Heimbold Family Children's Learning Center, which has a reading nook, computers, a prop-filled stage set and "a full-size Viking made of Lego pieces," Ms. Carter said.
The control panels on some of the computers look like props from old "Star Trek" episodes.
I tried to take a computer but the prop guy came after me.
As in Myst and Riven, the developers used live-action sequences instead of computer-generated actors and props; Irish stated that using computer graphics would have reminded players they were in a game, "which would wreck the immersion that is so critical to the Myst games".
Dozens of covers followed, some with Mr. Mahurin — wittily manipulated with makeup, props and computer re-imagery — as the model.
Sometimes, he'll prop his computer up on the steering wheel where he enjoys views worthy of a corner office.
Apple lent computers as props.
The dinosaurs were a mix of props and computer-generated imagery.
