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Consider Your Needs, Then Use This Guide to Buying a Laptop

With laptops outselling desktop PCs, Walt Mossberg offers a quick guide to the key factors you should consider when buying notebook computers.

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New Office for Macs Speeds Up Programs, Integrates Formats

The new Microsoft Office for the Mac isn’t revolutionary, but it’s a solid program that does its job faster than old versions, Walt says.

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Here’s a Mac FAQ if You’re Looking to Buy a Computer

Every average consumer using a computer should at least look at the Mac, suggests Walt Mossberg. Here’s a quick guide — a sort of Mac FAQ — to shopping for a Macintosh.

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Fusion Is Latest Way For Macs to Operate Windows, PC Software

Walt Mossberg tests Fusion, another option for running Windows, and Windows programs, on a Mac. The program let him switch between each operating system rapidly and smoothly without slowing down his computer.

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Buying a Laptop Means More Attention to Special Features

Walt provides some tips for making laptop purchases. First, you may want to wait to get that new laptop until later this year or early in 2008. There are a number of interesting new hardware features coming.(Video)

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Using Even New PCs Is Ruined by a Tangle of Trial Programs, Ads

New PCs force consumers to spend hours weeding out teaser software and ads that slow down the machines. The problem is a lack of respect for the consumer: manufacturers don’t act as if the computer belongs to you.

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Anyone Can Produce, And Star, in a Video — Just like Mine

Walt Mossberg explains how he makes his weekly Web videos — and how viewers can easily do so as well.

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Novatel Laptop Cards Can Access Internet, But Services Vary

Novatel has come out with a couple of new ExpressCard versions for Cingular and Verizon cellular broadband networks. I recommend both new cards. But the two high-speed networks are very different.

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New Product for Mac Operates Windows, OS X Simultaneously

Apple’s Intel-powered computers can run both Windows and Mac OS X, but now there’s an even better approach. Parallels Desktop lets users run Mac and Windows programs simultaneously, giving them the best of both worlds.

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