Taking off with a laptop: Carrying a computer is a great convenience, or is it?

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Many computer companies are competing in the laptop computer market including the following: Apple, Compaq, Dell, Fujitsu, Librex, NEC, Poquet, Sharp Toshiba, Zenith and Zeos. How can a potential customer decide what product to buy? For one thing, match the power of the computer against uses to which it will be put. If it will be used to do considerable work, spend $3,500 to $5,000. If it will be used for memos and electronic mail, get a less expensive machine in the $1,500 to $2,000 range. If the work to be done requires many calculations, buy a machine that has a math coprocessor. Get a machine that weighs less than seven pounds. Try to get one that weighs about five pounds. A standard-sized keyboard with a touch-type layout is usually a good idea. A numerical keypad is useful for calculations. Other decisions might include the following: Will the computer fit conveniently on tables or trays? Will it run all the software that will be used on it?

Travel, Equipment and supplies, Buyers Guide, Laptop computers, Portable computers, Laptop/Portable Computer, Guidelines

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90's hot rod: a home computer, loaded

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Home computer purchasers are passing up modest microcomputers well-suited to their needs for the highest performance models currently available, replete with fast Intel 80486 and Pentium microprocessors, CD-ROM drives and huge hard-disk drives. Fashion, more than actual utility, is fueling the trend, which to some observers seems reminiscent of the days when muscle cars were Detroit's most popular models. While traditional power users avoid commercial machines to assemble their own, businessmen and even 50-something female college English professors are becoming the merely knowledgeable users who, wooed by sexy ads, are purchasing high-performance machines for about $3,000 apiece from such vendors as Dell Computer Corp, IBM's Ambra subsidiary and Gateway 2000. Ambra Pres David Middleton estimates that such knowledgeable users constitute 20-25 percent of today's and will form 50 percent of 1997's microcomputer market.

Column, Dell Inc., Gateway Inc., DELL, Trends, Market Analysis, Marketing Strategy, Performance, Advertising (Industry), State-of-the-Art, Home Computer Market, Ambra Computer Corp.

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Buying a personal computer: the choices can be daunting

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Consumers face many choices in buying a microcomputer in the early 1990s. IBM-compatible microcomputers offer the most complex choices and Apple Computer Inc microcomputers offer less. The foremost concern for consumers is the microprocessor: it is the heart of a computer and might limit certain software applications if it is not powerful enough. Buyers should take their software with them shopping and test a microcomputer to see if it has adequate power for their applications. Buyers should also consider internal memory and hard disk storage capacity. Other choices include the graphics card and the screen. Consumers can shop for microcomputers by going to a retail store, ordering via mail order or buying from a small assembly shop.

Methods, Shopping, Computer Industry

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