Is That Your Check Book Driving Away by Darren Miller
Is Your Check Book On The Curb --------------------- This is an article about people throwing away their home computers with all their financial and banking information on them and easily accessible. A very simple first step to financial and identity theft and it happens all the time. ... Throwing Away your Computer, Money, and Identity --------------------- Jackson Morgan, a contributing author for Defending The Net, wrote an article called "Computer Disposal - Throwing Away Your Computer, Money, and Identity" a few months ago.

Cheap Laptops: Are They Worth The Money? by Titus Hoskins
Remember last year when a sale featuring laptops priced at $500 caused a stampede in one store. What a difference a year makes! Laptop prices have been steadily dropping, falling below those stampede prices in some cases. As productions costs come down and the marketplace is flooded with all... They also sell perfectly fine refurbished laptops that you should also consider if you're interested in buying a cheap laptop. ... (if you're just using your laptop as a desktop replacement and it will be plugged in all the time, long battery life may not be that important).

Choosing a Laptop Computer Based on Hardware and Software Needs by David Arnold Livingston
Laptop computers are one of the most desirable techie gadgets. A laptop is a portable computer that could comfortably be used while on a person’s lap – hence the name. It contains all the basic and necessary software (like Office System and Internet access) and hardware (like CD-Rom drive and... Being portable, it can be brought along and used anywhere - school, work, vacation trips, unlike the ordinary desktop computer. ... In this regard, a computer addict doesn’t have to be a hermit anymore! ... There are many attractive add-ons in the computer shop like glow-in-the-dark mouse pads or...

CTRL + ALT + DEL, The $100 Handcranked Computer by Shonika Proctor
U.S. + computers + helping developing nations + big opportunity = No Microsoft. Now how could that equation possibly be? Try Negroponte who is in the news again with his One Laptop Per Child Non-Profit that is going to help decrease the Digital Divide between first and third world nations. ... They may not make great marketing recipients but if the developing countries could find enough teachers who knew how to teach with a computer, one computer could easily serve 50 children in the primary school years.