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Technology has a long history of growing smaller, with portability and convenience as two of its major selling points. From time to time, however, it occurs to manufacturers that sometimes bigger is indeed better, a phenomenon reflected with the advent of the SUV, the big screen TV, the boom box, and the platform shoe. While the latest slim cell phones push the boundaries on the other end of the spectrum, manufacturers like Acer and Dell are blurring the line between desktop and notebook.
"The trend towards larger screen notebooks is emerging because more and more customers are looking to portable devices for gaming and for higher-end entertainment functions," Samir Bhavnani, director of research for Current Analysis told LAPTOP. The trend certainly makes sense-as more people look to their notebooks as potential entertainment centers, the demand for more powerful systems with larger screens grows, and so do the notebooks themselves. Thus 18-pound systems are born. At what point is the line between desktops and notebooks rendered pointless? It seems that we're getting pretty close.
Since we happened to have a Dell XPS M2010 lying around the office, we figured it an opportune time to take the 20.1-inch system for a spin in the crowded streets of midtown Manhattan. Despite its prominent handle, the 18.3-pound system isn't designed for carrying around crowded city streets. It's also not designed for tiny coffee shop tables, nor the human lap-even as a 5'11" male, I had a fair bit of trouble keeping the thing steady on mine, a situation not improved by the fact that the keyboard detaches automatically. Here's a recap of my big-screen-machine adventure.
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