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Five popular business laptops
Justin Jaffe
Justin Jaffe,
senior associate editor

As performance improves and prices continue to go down, laptops increasingly replace desktop PCs at work. A laptop offers a number of advantages, especially portability. Even if your work doesn't call for much travel, a laptop allows you to take all of your data with you on a daily commute or down the hall for a presentation. Most of today's notebooks are just as capable as basic business-desktop PCs and require much less desk space. The best business laptops combine portability, performance, battery life, and integrated wireless networking. Here are five business laptops that CNET readers have deemed the best of the best.

Product name Lenovo ThinkPad X40 2386 (Pentium M 1 GHz, 256 MB RAM, 20 GB HDD)
Lenovo ThinkPad X40 2386 (Pentium M 1 GHz, 256 MB RAM, 20 GB HDD)


Review date March 2, 2004


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Review summary Business travelers who like to travel light should definitely consider IBM's sleek, new, full-featured powerhouse: the ThinkPad X40.


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Dimensions (WxDxH) 10.6 in x 8.3 in x 1.1 in  


Weight 2.6 lbs 


Processor Intel Pentium M 1 GHz Ultra Low Voltage (ULV)  


Cache Memory 1 MB - L2 cache  


RAM 256 MB (installed) / 1.28 GB (max) - DDR SDRAM - 333 MHz - PC2700  


Hard Drive 20 GB - 4200 rpm  


Optical Storage None  


Graphics Controller Intel Extreme Graphics 2  


Networking Network adapter - Ethernet , - IEEE 802.11b , - Gigabit Ethernet , - Fast Ethernet  


Battery Lithium ion  


OS Provided Microsoft Windows XP Professional  


 
 
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