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As a Mac devotee, it was with great reluctance that I fell for Toshiba's skinny 4.4-pound Portégé notebook. But at 8 pounds, my trusty PowerBook G3 feels like an encyclopedia - the last thing I need when I'm running to catch a plane. It's as if I've discovered After Eight thin mints after years of eating Peppermint Patties.
The Portégé's charcoal-and-silver magnesium-alloy case is stylish, if predictable, but there's nothing prosaic about its Pentium 600-MHz SpeedStep processor, 6-Gbyte hard drive, and 64 Mbytes of SDRAM. The 13.3-inch TFT active-matrix display rocks, especially for viewing movies with the DVD Network Dock II. The 2.6-pound portable dock snaps easily onto the notebook and elevates it from mere word-processing accessory to true desktop replacement. I only wish the Portégé had an Ethernet port for quick hookups on the road.
Portégé 7200CT: $3,399. Toshiba: (800) 867 4422, +1 (949) 583 3000, www.csd.toshiba.com.
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