Weighing in at nearly 6 lb., the Desknote is likely to spend most of its time on a desk rather than on the road. The absence of an internal battery shouldn't be much of a drawback for most users. And it uses the desktop version of processors from Intel Corp. But there's a difference: It isn't designed for power-free use, so it isn't equipped with an internal battery.

The company is gambling that the Desknote line of portable computers could reshape the way users and vendors think about notebook PCs - and preliminary research from IDC suggests Elitegroup might be right.Īt first glance, the Desknote looks like a notebook PC. The device in question, Desknote, is the brainchild of Taipei, Taiwan-based Elitegroup Computer Systems Co., which is betting that users will buy into its philosophy of a portable computer at a desktop price. But at a typical price of about $1,000, it sure doesn't burn a hole in your pocket like a notebook. It looks like a notebook, it runs like a notebook, and you carry it around like a notebook.

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