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Bulky laptop sacrifices size for power

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Raymond Ma

Product: Sony Vaio PCG-GRT40ZP Price: $25,000 Pros: Large screen, fast Cons: Will leave a hole in you wallet, heavy

Space is a consideration in a city where most people have to squeeze into apartments of 600 square feet, and owning a computer that can be tucked away on a shelf saves a valuable amount.

The problem in the past, though, was that notebook processing power usually lagged behind that of its desktop counterparts.

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Sony's newest Vaio GR series notebook, however, gives desktop PCs a run for their money.

Into it, Sony has packed a fully fledged Intel 3.06-gigahertz Pentium 4 processor, 512 megabytes of main memory, 64MB of video memory and a 60-gigabyte hard disk.

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The beautiful 16-inch display presents clear, bright and sharp images, and an NVIDA GeForce 5600 video card brings gaming to the level of that on most desktops.

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