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Thursday, August 30, 2001
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/30/technology/circuits/30STAT.html Laptops That Take a Licking By DAVID POGUE IT'S one of life's bits of poetic injustice that laptops — the computers most likely to get banged around — are the most fragile devices we own. According to the research firm IDC, an average of 8 percent of laptops in corporate America meet quick, expensive deaths every year from drops, spills and plunges from overhead bins. (ed. note: After reading that a high percentage of laptop deaths come from drowning in a coffee or soda spill, I ordered a keyboard cover for mine... will let you know how it works http://www.protectcovers.com/laptopf.htm).
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