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| There's a notebook in your future Why your next PC will be a notebook--or at least why it should be |
By Steve Fox
Editorial director, CNET.com
(1/9/2002)
Want to know where technology is headed? Just look at online traffic patterns and extrapolate from there. I'm oversimplifying the process, of course. You can't examine just any old Web audience and expect to unearth meaningful results. But digging into the behavior of CNET readers--a group that lives, breathes, and buys tech products by the bucketful--does offer telling clues about trends to watch for.
Take the never-ending push-pull between desktops and notebooks. According to IDC, desktops outsell notebooks by a margin of 3-to-1. I'm guessing CNET users haven't read the latest reports. In fact, their buying patterns point to a coming boom in notebook sales, possibly at the expense of the reliable old desktop.
Is there a notebook in your future?
