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Rick Rizner, John Goddard
Elvis's jumpsuit. The White Album. Arctic hares. They all come to mind when looking at the Sharp Actius AL27, a laptop that sports an exterior in a blinding glossy-white rarely seen in nature--or in an office. Feature-wise, the AL27 is fairly run of the mill. A fixed multiformat DVD burner with a prominent eject button sits just around the right corner, and four USB ports are conveniently distributed on the left side of the case and on the rear. A VGA port for connecting a standard monitor sits beneath a plastic door on the left, but the notebook has no TV-out connection. The front sports four connections--an unusual convenience for a laptop--including not only microphone and headphone jacks but also a FireWire port. The fourth front port is a mini-USB jack,...