After all, they stay true to the spirit of keeping a little piece of your PC with you.

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Which might indeed be a valid way of looking at things: I think we can all see a day coming, and coming soon, when a desktop PC is just not considered an essential piece of equipment at all.

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The entire dark chassis may seem basic and highly minimalistic, but there are small intricacies like the chrome borders, hidden port covers, and wave-shaped hinges that just make this thing feel more like a computing piece of art than a basic bargain-basement PC.

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If you own a Samsung PC, you may want to search your hard drive for an unassuming program called StarLogger, a piece of commercial spyware capable of recording every keystroke on your machine and sending the data to a third party.

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In addition, Lenovo has made or is making plays for PC assets in other regions, notably for Medion in Germany and for some yet-to-be-specified piece of NEC in Japan or elsewhere.

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