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HARDWARE
What was the last in-flight movie you were forced to endure en route to Hong Kong? Sure, you can watch your own picks with your laptop's DVD-ROM, or spend your time more productively by hunkering down over spreadsheets, but either way you'll kill the battery within two hours. Fear not: With a second battery installed, Dell's latest model lasts up to four hours.
My Inspiron 8000 arrived with three bay options: a fixed CD-ROM or DVD bay, and a bay for a second battery, a hard drive, or even a CD-RW (the setup pictured above) - which will let you burn straight from audio discs or gold betas while you clock in some miles. Inside, it's armed with an Intel Mobile Pentium III 850-MHz processor and 32 megs of video memory.
The notebook's replaceable color wristpads might be a bit goofy, but with all its power enhancements, you'll be toting what amounts to a desktop in your carry-on.
Inspiron 8000: $3,826. Dell: www.dell.com.
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