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Of Mice and Men and Laptops (A Kind of Buyer's Guide)

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Forty-two chunks of plastic, aluminum, glass and silicon; beasts that ranged from cheap miniscule netbooks to a Sony "Exxon Valdez" series laptop -- a seven-pound behemoth, nearly two inches thick with a display the size of Alaska. There was even what I call an HP "uglybook" -- a multicolored monstrosity in -- could it be? -- plaid.

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