Three objects I have splurged on: my little Sony camcorder, my Sony notebook and my Olympus digital voice recorder.

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These days when I travel, I try to leave my fancy notebook at home, and just borrow someone else's PC -- you know, one with a real keyboard and a real T1 connection.

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Letting out an exclamation, I gripped the notebook with both hands and pressed it to my chest.

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When my neighborhood's electric grid went dark last year for much of a deadline day, I simply grabbed the notebook from my briefcase, swapped in the spare and kept on typing.

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When I adjusted the notebook and moved it farther over into its elastic strap holders, my handwriting was accurately captured.

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Some of you might remember when Wi-Fi was first being built into notebook computers, my company, as well as many others, ran tests to determine range and speed (the weaker the radio signal the less data speed), and found big differences.

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