Thursday Laptop and Notebook Review and News Roundup

Best of the Net:

Alexander Wolf wonders why anyone wants a new laptop:

[U]nless you covet a new MacBook, you’re not crossing your fingers in hopes of finding a shiny new notebook computer under the tree. Smartphones, netbooks, and digital SLRs, definitely. But laptops? Yawn!

Dan Costa wonders if Netbooks are the new notebooks:

But can the netbook replace the notebook? Here at PC Magazine, we learn by doing, so I hit the road with netbook in tow.

cNet names Sony’s 18″ laptop it’s home movie favorite:

[I]magine our pleasant surprise to find the Vaio AW125 to be less expensive than the other 18-inch, Blu-ray equipped laptops we’ve seen.

John Morris looks at Best Buy’s newest marketing ploy:

According to Best Buy customers are looking for a decent-size display in a thin and lightweight laptop, a backlit keyboard and a standard two-year warranty.

Otherwise, it’s a pretty slow day out there in notebook world.

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