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Top 10 Notebooks of 2008

In fact, the market is so price-conscious these days that a vendor can keep refreshing the platform without changing the design and yet the unit will still sell, if it’s cheap enough. With the economy taking a dip in the foreseeable future, this trend may become even more dominant in 2009.

HP Pavilion dv2700 (Core 2 [...]

Acer Aspire 5920-6954

At 7.3 pounds, the Aspire 5920-6954 is the heaviest budget laptop we looked at, but it has a 250GB hard drive and a fairly nice 15.4-inch screen (it’s a bit too reflective). Though it lacks a few things like Bluetooth, the 5920-6954 is the most high-definition-ready unit here, including both an HDMI port and an [...]

Acer Aspire One

Possibly a first for any portable, the Acer Aspire One sports a second SDHC memory slot (alongside a 5-in-1 reader) is used to expand the storage capacity. But instead of detecting the SD card as a separate device, the Aspire actually spans the drive such that the external card merges with the main storage. The [...]