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Intel vPro has arrived, and it is an exciting leap forward for Business IT.

July 15th marked the launch of Intel's Centrino 2 platform, their fifth update to the Centrino brand, and the notebook industry has snapped to attention with a large roll-out of new systems, but what really matters is how this will affect you and your choice in notebooks.

Deceptions, benchmarks, and statistics... what they have in common is their ability to seem trustworthy even when they actually misrepresent the truth. Here's how to get to the bottom of benchmarks.

PCMCIA is being replaced by ExpressCard, which features PCI Express. Many of our laptops include an ExpressCard slot, and most of those no longer offer PCMCIA slots. Firewire, Gigabit ethernet, external SATA and more ExpressCards are available now.

Biometrics have made it to laptops. When your computer asks you to log in to Windows or a website, just press your finger onto the fingerprint scanner, and it will log you in. It's quick and easy.

For ages, laptops have come with built-in SD flash memory card readers. SD flash memory has become very commonly used in digital cameras, PDAs, and some mp3 players. It also is currently the cheapest flash memory. The current low price is 2GB for $30 or 4GB for $65 after rebate.

In this corner...Microsoft's Internet Explorer, weighing in with the backing of Microsoft, installed on all Windows machines and used by most of the Windows community. And, in this corner...the challenger, Mozilla's Firefox, the latest browser from the original makers of Netscape.

Laptops, like Desktops, generate heat from the processor, memory, hard drive and video card. You notice it more with a laptop because it is up on the desk with you (or on your lap) instead of on the floor, and you are typing right above the heat sources. So, the question is how much heat is too much heat, and what can you do to help keep it cool?