Its XPS M2010 portable computer is slick, but at 18.3 pounds it's more than a little ungainly.
Portable computer tablets, such as Apple's upcoming iPad, are also part of the equipment of a paperless office.
Reading a book on what is essentially a portable computer changes consumer behavior in subtle and not so subtle ways.
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The family gathered many of the materials and delivered them to police on a portable computer drive, McCafferty told CNN.
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And there are fewer mechanical parts to go wrong, and less open ports to trap dust inside your new portable computer.
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Do I need a portable computer which I can carry with me at all times and check obsessively throughout the day?
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Once connected to your Wi-Fi network, users can watch live TV wirelessly on a portable computer or iPad, anywhere inside the house.
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Best Buy said smartphone sales continued to rise compared with a year ago, as did portable computer totals, buoyed by the iPad.
"We are thinking in terms of a portable computer, " said Professor Ricketts.
Osborne, for younger readers, made the first portable computer in the 1980s.
Two years ago, Otellini handed Jobs a pristine silicon wafer to mark the announcement of the first Intel-powered Apple portable computer, the MacBook Pro.
Gateway calls it the lightest portable computer equipped with DVD.
We predict the future by dreaming big, but sometimes the small innovations and the transformation of something like a phone into a portable computer are what really change the world.
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The sophisticated operation used "forged document specialists, " a locksmith and a portable computer to sync a key to the vehicle's unique code, allowing the vehicle to be stolen without damage, authorities said.
This explains why Transmeta is, initially at least, aiming its products at the portable-computer market.
These products are intended for high performance notebooks (which often are the larger screen size 2.5-inch laptops that serve as semi-portable desktop computer).
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In March Bug Labs, in New York, began selling an assortment of white, 2.5-inch-square hardware modules that snap into its portable Linux computer, the Bugbase, to create almost any gadget you can think up.
The staff managed to save all the portable equipment -- computer, sound and lighting systems.
As a portable and truly personal computer, indeed, the mobile phone may turn out to be the credit card, or even identity card, of the future, making payments and opening doors.
Tiny upstart Sling Media is now a veteran in this category, with a nearly two-year-old device that tosses video over the Web from a TV screen to a computer or portable device.
The 90-store chain plans to open a new online service this summer that lets consumers create their own podcasts--audio and video shows designed to be downloaded onto a computer or portable media player--using a catalog of some 6, 000 songs, which Tower will provide free of charge.
The inventor of the Walkman, for instance, has been eclipsed in portable music players by Apple Computer's iPod.
The flexible form of the display makes it much more portable that any current mobile computer: it will shape with your pocket.
The inventor of the Walkman, for instance, has been eclipsed in portable music players by Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people )'s iPod.
It's a fax with fidelity, like Adobe Acrobat portable document files without needing a computer.
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You can even use an old-fashioned wire to hook them up to less-portable devices a desktop computer or CD player, for example.
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If you have room left over on the iPod after transferring your music, you can use it as a portable hard disk, manually copying any computer file to its hard disk to back up files or move them to another Mac.
Apple Corps, which was created by The Beatles in 1968, took on Apple Computer in the High Court in September 2003 over claims that the computer maker's iPod portable player and iTunes Music Store violated its trademark agreement to steer clear of the music business.
If a package needs a shipping label, the computer orders one via Bluetooth from a portable printer.
Purchased movies can reside on up to two computers, with each computer being allowed to sync with one portable device, and it does seem that re-downloading will be allowed in case your HDD crashes.
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