Where are those people who have no place to be?
Un Café À Paris, France:
Percentage of people using laptops: 0%
A Cafe in Berkeley, California:
Percentage of people using laptops: 95%
Laptop distribution:
PowerBooks: 55%
iBooks:30%
PCs:15%
Most sighted web page: Gmail
This data is based on observation and not an actual survey.
luna'space 
The laptop culture probably started during the dotcom boom when a lot of freelancers worked out of cafes in the Bay Area, and I suppose caught on with students, because Portland has a couple of Universities, too (albeit not of the importance and size of UCB). I also have to add that this is a phenomenon present only in cafes with free Wi-Fi. Laptops don’t have such a strong presence in the more “traditional” University cafes.
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Great photos! From the number of laptops, a logician could infer the dominating presence of a University. Many fewer in the Portland (OR) cafes I had the chance to visit last week.
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surprising
I knew a lot of you were using laptops in cafes but not in that proportitions.
stephane
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