One Laptop Per Me
 

A $US549 Dell laptop is not a very exciting product - it'll have half as much RAM as it needs, for a start - but it's still worth remembering. Heck, you can get a Lenovo 3000-series laptop for $US649, or a (similarly Lenovo-built) new ThinkPad for barely more. The particular charms of a PC companion start to fade when the darn things cost as much as these "proper" laptops.

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