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Businessmen don’t use netbooks. Sure, all-day battery life would be nice for those long flights. They do fit awfully nice in most briefcases, too. And the Intel Atom is more than enough for Firefox, Excel and Skype. But the humble netbook has always been plagued by an image problem. They look cheap, and that’s not the impression an executive wants to exude when he lays his laptop down on the walnut conference room table.
IntroductionPerhaps no tech company short of Apple makes style more paramount than Sony. The new Vaio CW series, however, melds Sony’s knack for sharp design with a trait more foreign to the company: affordability. The fresh Vaio line of Nvidia-powered 14.1-inch notebooks charts an intelligent course between style and substance, while keeping price in check all the while, making it a great choice for the practical fashionista on a budget.
Now that you have a laptop bag to protect your precious portable computer from damage, it’s time to grab a few laptop accessories. From wireless mice and external hard drivers to speakers and keyboard lights, these goodies will turn your feeble laptop into a fully customized portable workstation in no time.
Never have your portable mouse around when you need it? Logitech’s V550 clips right to the top of your notebook with a sturdy button, ensuring it’s always an arm’s reach away.
The first purchase for absolutely any laptop owner should be protection. Whether it’s a stylish messenger bag or backpack for around town, a briefcase for travel, or just a simple sleeve or case for home, keeping your computer safe is essential. We’ve rounded up some the most stylish, fashionable, and practical laptop bags on the market.
Skooba’s “checkpoint-friendly” messenger bags unzips down the middle to reveal your notebook in a clear-sided pocket, eliminating the need to remove it when going through airport security.
It’s happened to many a traveler: You’re onboard a flight from, say, New York to Los Angeles, with plans to finish a stack of work along the way. After all, an airplane is often a great place to be productive, thanks to the absence of nagging colleagues, email and ringing phones. Except you’re barely over Minnesota and your computer warns you it’s about to “hibernate” as your battery power is hovering somewhere around just five percent. Now how exactly do you plan to finish that sales report before you land?
The old axiom that you can’t upgrade a laptop has never been less true. Sure, your nay-saying, desktop-bound friends who repeat it have a basic kernel of truth in their favor – the core guts of a mobile machine are pretty much set in stone. But if you’re not looking to completely revamp a computer (which can hardly be called an upgrade anyway), aftermarket manufacturers have found plenty of clever ways to skirt the issue of expandability, and slap new parts onto your aging laptop, giving it new functionality that may not have even been possible when it was built. So if your $2,000 wonder machine from three years ago doesn’t seem quite so wondrous any more, but another two grand for a new model isn’t in the budget at the moment, here are some inexpensive ways to hop up the old girl and get her running like never before.
Before even discussing the most influential, important developments of the technology age, the simple transistor must claim its rank near the top. Or, more accurately, the incredible shrink-ability of said transistor.
In 1947, the world’s first working example of a transistor, a crude-looking assembly seemingly made up of various bits of wire, assorted spare parts, ample doses of solder, and what looks like an ancient Indian arrowhead, sprang to life in a nondescript room at Bell Labs’ Murray Hill, New Jersey facility. That transistor would evolve – and shrink – quite substantially over the course of the next three decades, and by 1979, Intel engineers had figured a way to incorporate an astounding 29,000 of them into its landmark 8088 processor. But that number positively pales in comparison with today’s Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, which features 10,000 times as many (291 million), and Intel’s upcoming eight-core processors, which will sport an astounding 2.3 billion.
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Sony has been known for great laptops ever since they debuted the VAIO line. To this day, if you want great performance in a tiny package, VAIO notebooks are where you should look. Their smallest notebooks are called PictureBooks, and their new one is the C1MW. What makes the C1MW truly unique is its size coupled with just about every feature imaginable.
In a world where its trendy to have a sleek and slim system, the Sony VAIO C1MW Picturebook takes this to the extreme. If your PDA does not have the featured you want and your current laptop is too bulky, look no further.
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