A truly decked-out notebook is the ideal traveling companion for business and of course for bloggers.Laptops have gone extreme and styly. Some of the latest models come loaded with giant screens, massive hard drives, dual processors, Blu-ray or HD DVD drives, and even designer lids, if you so desire. Laptops have also become incredibly popular in recent years--major vendors say that portables are on track to outsell desktop PCs by 1 million units this year. Laptop companies must be doing the right things to make their machines so enticing.
Rounded up six of the biggest, baddest laptops programers could find to see which are worth our hard-earned dollars. They tested three desktop replacement models (the Apple MacBook Pro, Dell Inspiron 1720, and HP Pavilion HDX) and three all-purpose laptops (the Lenovo ThinkPad R61, Sony VAIO VGN-FZ180E/B, and Toshiba Satellite A205-S4639). They ran WorldBench 6 Beta 2 benchmark test suite--as well as battery tests--on the notebooks, and they also put them through rigorous hands-on evaluations. In the end the HP notebook came out atop the desktop-replacement category, while the Lenovo portable bested the other all-purpose models.
In addition to looking at some of the most decked-out portables available, they examined the latest mobile broadband options to help consumers stay connected when we're on the road. They also checked up on solid-state technology and how it's changing the way laptops perform. They peeked a bit into the future to see where laptop technology is headed. And finally, they rounded up a number of carry-on bags for protecting our machine and looked at some accessories that can help increase our productivity when we and our notebook are traveling.
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