With office space at a premium, the need for small, compact PCs becomes even more pressing. But the trick is to fulfil this aim without sacrificing anything in connectivity. With bulky monitors being replaced by flat panel screens as the price of these continues to fall, the main occupier of space becomes the system box.
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It wasn’t so long ago that the sub-notebook was thought of as an expensive toy: fine for people doing lightweight work on the move, but of no use for serious business applications.
How times have changed. Today’s ultra portables are now hard on the heels of their bigger brothers, in terms of both performance and functionality, [...]
Too much hard drive space is never enough. Operating systems and applications seem to double their hard drive footprints on a yearly basis, while even some reference CD-ROMs and games can dump several hundred megabytes of data onto your hard drive.
And then there’s the Internet effect. Unless you actively delete them, every e-mail you’ve ever [...]