The most ideal applications for a notebook computer are light word processing and communications.

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Fact is, if you want to use your computer for much of anything beyond word processing, number crunching or surfing the web, having an Apple computer is an enormous liability.

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Boston's Route 128 was home not just to the minicomputer revolution but to early developments in word processing, spreadsheets, networks and computer-aided design.

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Think of it this way: before, if you wanted to type up say, your resume, you'd use the word processing program you have installed on your computer, but now?

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There was a string attached: in exchange for a cash infusion, Hangul was required to kill its word-processing program, long a favorite of the country's computer users.

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The YouTube video shows some of the various standard applications that come with the XO-1: Firefox, an unnamed instant messaging program, a variant of Abiword (word processing), and an application called eToys that looks like a combination of traditional computer games (such as Chinese Checkers) combined with something resembling the children's art program Kid Pix.

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