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Ever tried using a laptop on an economy-class tray table? It's not easy, especially when you're also trying to balance a coffee and a pile of paperwork. Lighten your load with the MP-XP7230, a new, second-generation notebook from JVC. It's just A5 in size but gives you enough storage and battery life for on-the-road duties...
...specifications. So don't expect superfast chips or extra-fat memory. But it will allow you to send e-mails, surf the Net, work on a few documents and do some undemanding graphic chores while you're between hotel rooms - which is all most business travelers want from their laptop. It's also equipped with an internal wireless LAN module, letting you check your messages or log on wherever there is a hot spot instead of having to plug into a phone or data line...
...Beverly and Jenks are recovering from surgery in the intensive-care ward of the 28th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad. In a way, they seem as boyish as they did before the attack. While a DVD of Lord of the Rings plays on Beverly's laptop, Jenks laments that his PlayStation 2 console is on its way to Iraq just as he is being sent back to Germany. Both show visitors plastic cups that contain shrapnel fragments removed from their bodies. There is no bitterness or self-pity. Says Beverly: "You've always got to expect the worst...
...Schermerhorn writes his name on a tile wall in the common area that serves as a reservation sheet for the platoon's single Internet terminal. Most members of the platoon communicate daily with family members through email. The soldiers recently bought a webcam and connected it to the house laptop. The Tomb Raiders' hooch can be eerily antisocial, largely because today's G.I. can spend so much time in front of TV and computer screens. Schermerhorn spends the next hour instant messaging his girlfriend of three months, Nicole, a German he met while based in Giessen. The two speak three...
...like to take my laptop to the dining hall and just be unplugged for awhile,” said Lowell resident Eli Sprecher...