A Winning Streak? ; Gadgets Dell Is a World-Beater When It Comes to Mail-Order Pcs, and Now It's Taking On Apple with a Big-Screen Mobile Tablet [Eire Region]

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Sixty years ago, the Popular Mechanics magazine famously predicted: 'In the future, computers may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.' Even in the Nineties, however, the idea that you might mistake a computer for a mobile phone would have been hilarious.

Mobiles then were pocketsized bricks that you could also use to play Snake; PCs were monoliths about as portable as a blacksmith's anvil.

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A Winning Streak? ; Gadgets Dell Is a World-Beater When It Comes to Mail-Order Pcs, and Now It's Taking On Apple with a Big-Screen Mobile Tablet [Eire Region]

So the new Dell Streak is an odd device. If I were a gadget psychiatrist, I'd diagnose it as having a severe d...

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