| Roll over lumbering desktop computers, the limber | | | | :)(V) Value:In the seventies the aforementioned IBM |
| laptop is here, and it's here to stay! For a while now | | | | 5100 would have set you back a staggering 20,000 |
| notebooks have outstripped their ageing desktop PC | | | | dollars. Today a top of the range IBM Thinkpad can be |
| siblings, easily winning the gold medal in the computer | | | | bought for around 3000 dollars. Cheaper Thinkpads |
| sales olympics. We will illustrate how the PVP effect | | | | can often be obtained for well under a thousand |
| has contributed greatly to the increase in popularity of | | | | dollars, especially if you don't mind purchasing a used |
| notebook computers.(P) Portability:Firstly it may be | | | | or refurbished model.(P) Performance:Many laptops |
| stating the obvious, but people buy laptops because | | | | today come fitted with Centrino processors which |
| they can take them anywhere. Office workers need | | | | offer superb performance and improved battery life. |
| no more be confined to their claustrophophic cubicles. | | | | What is Centrino I hear you ask? Well this is Intel's |
| Instead those statistic charts and data reports can be | | | | name for their new notebook technology that |
| compiled on a train, in the comfort of an arm chair, or | | | | combines their Pentium M processor, 855 chipset and |
| even on the beach! Portability equals flexibility, but alas | | | | the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 WiFi 802.11 network |
| this hasn't always been the case. Todays ultra | | | | interface. Laptops fitted with these processors are |
| portable laptop computers have a come along way | | | | usually lighter because of the smaller components |
| since the bulky, sewing machine sized machines of the | | | | used.Couple this attractive feature with wireless |
| late seventies and early eighties. Indeed one of the first | | | | networking technology and you have a powerful |
| portable computers was built by IBM, and this machine | | | | technological package. Wi-Fi is short for "Wireless |
| (IBM 5100) weighed in at a hefty 50lbs! Today's | | | | Fidelity" and it's usage is growing quickly amongst |
| corridor warriors would have trouble lugging that puppy | | | | home users, office workers, even coffee shops. If you |
| from meeting to meeting, unless of course they | | | | enter Wi-Fi areas with a properly equipped notebook, |
| subjected themselves to an intensive dose of steroids | | | | you can access the Internet at broadband speeds. |