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Laptops: your next computer?(Home computing: the new realities)(Buyers Guide)
This year, the laptop has finally come into its own as a serious alternative to the desktop computer. Laptops are no longer little machines intended for road warriors who are willing to sacrifice performance for portability.
Diminutive screens and cramped keyboards have been replaced by bigger screens and more-usable key layouts. Processors, once lagging noticeably in speed, have caught up, and an innovative new processor provides some real advantages. Fast CD and DVD recording drives are common, as are ample hard drives. And a growing interest in wireless computing plays to the laptop's main strength: its portability.
Laptops have always performed well ...
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