Dell's announcement this week of new laptop designs marks the state of the art in a long and arduous road toward building the ideal portable computer.
By Chris Smith
This week's announcement by Dell that it's introducing a new line of Latitude and Precision laptop and mobile workstation computers that extend battery life, increase durability with Flash RAM drives, and sport backlit keyboards (so we all can take notes in the movie theater and write reviews like Roger Ebert) likely will be this year's entry into laptop history.