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Although sold as a 'consumer entertainment' notebook, the swivelling PDA-style touch screen on HP's newest laptop could have strong appeal to the small business market.
Microsoft is continuing to push the Tablet PC as the "evolution of computing", and this time, it claims, the product will catch on.
With lowering LCD prices, and the gap between notebook processors and desktop ones getting ever slimmer, conventional wisdom says that the humble desktop PC is headed for the same place as 5 1/4in floppies and people who actually liked Myst.
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