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The increase in notebook sales has been fueled by an ongoing stream of technical improvements that are making the notebook an irresistibly attractive desktop replacement. Improvements in notebooks' design, upgradability, and a move toward additional notebook-related standards will make the notebooks of the next year or two even more attractive as desktop replacements.
This year's notebook computer sports a number of improvements - some visible, some not so obvious. In terms of performance, for example, CPUs have caught up with desktops. An IT manager can get the same performance out of both a desktop with a Pentium 200MHz or 233-MHz MMX CPU and a notebook. The argument that notebooks take a back seat to desktops, with respect to performance, has lost its factual basis- at least this year.
The new Tillamook processor, which began shipping early this year, uses...