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Tablet overdose: smart managers, clumsy types, those with flexible necks--we are all firmly in laptop suppliers' sights.(Technology)(Brief Article)

Business Traveller Middle East

| January 01, 2004 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Panacea Publishing International Ltd. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Call me old fashioned, but the lexicon of laptops always confuses me. Suppliers seem to revel in putting out statements that appear at once harmonious and ambiguous. Only those with a degree in software engineering will probably know what a 'dual axis accelerometer' actually is. As for all the talk of convergence, convenience, integration and interfacing, it's no good. I still feel like a helpless rabbit in the IT headlights.

It stands to reason that the three key issues for consumers today--as they have been since the first person decided to pick up a computer and run with it--are price, compatibility and durability. Everything else is a sideshow.

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