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Budget laptops for mobile businesses
Updated January 12, 2006

You could buy a $2,500 laptop and write it off as a business expense, but until your business is off the ground, it's more sensible to use that money for rising fuel costs. Not just any old cheap laptop will do, though; you need power for basic productivity work and battery life to make it through several hours away from a wall socket. And it wouldn't hurt to have a screen that doesn't bump up against the steering wheel while you dash off e-mail in the parking lot. These picks offer all that, at a price that leaves money in the budget for Wi-Fi access at Starbucks.