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...traditional "one more thing" finale. This is pretty much what Mac lovers like myself have been fantasizing about for a long time: it's 1 in. thick and weighs less than 5 lbs., with a gorgeous 15-in. screen and slot-loading DVD drive. No Windows laptop offers all those features combined. After years of lugging clunky old PowerBooks onto planes and casting jealous glances at the guy with the 1.3-in.-slim Sony Vaio across the aisle, I'm looking forward to making the Vaio guy lust for my svelte beauty. Who says size doesn't matter...
...sweet revenge may have to wait some time, however. Although the G4 laptop ($2,599 to $3,997, comparable to Vaio prices) will be officially released at the end of this month, there will probably be quite a bit of pent-up demand, and Apple has a long history of not delivering enough product on time. "We'll be making them just as fast as we can," Jobs told me. But when I asked if there would be a shortage, he smiled and said, "I hope so." Lines of would-be buyers clamoring for his products would, after all, make...
...pocket e-mail device. Bush is impatient with distracting details, just as he is with the cedar undergrowth on his ranch, which he clears with a vengeance because it distracts his view of the big picture. Gore personally managed his legal strategy and wrote his own statements on his laptop. Bush delegates with abandon; during our hours at the ranch, while his lead was slipping in the hand counts, he neither turned on the news nor checked in with his aides. When called with word of the Supreme Court stay, he chatted for only a few minutes and didn...
...finally, whenever possible, leave your laptop at home. Take TIME's instead...
INVISIBLE ORGANIZER It's not as powerful as a Palm or as colorful as a PocketPC, but Xircom's REX 6000 rex.net $149) goes where the others can't: inside a laptop. The tiny touchscreen PDA is really a PC card, the kind that can slide into the side of portables. If you don't use a laptop, you can buy the optional cradle to fill REX with content from the Web or synchronized schedules from Microsoft Outlook. REX is right for inveterate networkers who travel light and don't want to miss a single digit...