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...been another hot year for consumer electronics, one that saw Toshiba release an impressive desktop PC, Sony take a first crack at a personal computer and a swarm of companies come out with hand-held devices, including the first really usable palm-top computer from U.S. Robotics. The year also included the nearly incessant squeal of Internet hype--and a stock market that couldn't get enough of hot-concept technology issues. It was all enough to send droves of Americans out to buy...a game machine...
...winner Toshiba Infinia Home...
...Toshiba Portege 660CDT For a balance between power and portability, the 5.7-lb. Portege is a good choice. For $5,299 you get a 1.26-GB hard disc, top components and a built-in CD-ROM drive...
Micro Center carries a very poor selection of PC notebooks; they only sell the Winbook line, which are sub-par compared to Toshiba and IBM models. They do sell a wide variety of desktops, but bring money for a taxi to take things home...
That battle came to a head the first week in December, when Sun and Microsoft staged competing press conferences. Sun went first, announcing a long list of companies that had agreed to endorse Java, including IBM, Apple, DEC, Adobe, Silicon Graphics, Hewlett Packard, Oracle and Toshiba. Everybody expected Microsoft to strike back, reaffirming its commitment to its own Java-like Visual Basic. But at the last minute, Gates changed his mind, announcing that he too would license Java, while also promising somewhat menacingly to "extend...