Theres no doubt the march of technological advance inside the machine certainly impacts upon its external visual aspects. So-called legacy-free PCs are starting to appear in numbers now, and their str

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There is a full keyboard with a trackpoint as the built-in pointing device and a generous palm rest.

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This notebook was designed from the ground up with business and security in mind, and it succeeds.