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Until now, conventional wisdom has held that a desktop personal computer is essential at home for heavy-duty tasks such as editing video. But with a slew of more powerful notebook computers hitting the market, consumers could ditch their desktop and make a laptop their primary home computer.
PC makers such as Hewlett-Packard Co., Sony Corp. and Acer Inc. this month unveiled laptops that rival desktops at performing multimedia tasks. Many of these notebook computers use a line of Intel Corp. chips — called Centrino Duo — that offer greater processing power and faster wireless networking. The souped-up laptops don’t come cheap, however, with many new models selling for $2,000 and up.
After becoming interested in editing digital video, Billy Nicol, a youth justice adviser in Aberdeen, Scotland, decided to discard his desktop and buy a more powerful notebook. So in January, Mr. Nicol, 47 years old, bought a 17-inch-screen H-P notebook with a faster processor, more memory, a bigger hard drive and Microsoft Corp.’s new Vista operating system. He has since used the notebook to create a DVD of his mother’s 70th birthday to send around to family and friends. “Now laptops are much more powerful, much easier to manage and you can take them with you if you want,” says Mr. Nicol, who paid about $2,562 for the notebook computer.
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Posted on May 30th, 2007 Written by: PCMAN
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