I remember in college in the late 80s (when laptops were mostly exotic and expensive) seeing someone walking across campus, carrying his Mac by the handle on the top and thinking that it was so cool to be able to transport a computer like that.
It was an interesting ambassadorial event when we’d invade a pizza parlor with a dozen Mac, especially after Phone Net showed up and we started wiring them up with technological equivalent of cans and string.
I was practically a poster child zipping around with my Mac bungeed to the back of my scooter.