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Although counterintuitive, laptops without screens could be more useful to some people than laptops with screens. I explain why in this blog posting.

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Somebody please explain to me the point of a laptop without a screen. If you're tying it to an external LCD or CRT, it ceases to be a portable device, in which case you're better off building a cheap desktop machine. Considering you can build a nicely appointed desktop for a few hundred, I don't see the point of hamstringing yourself with laptop hardware.

Idiotic. No batteries, no speakers, no screen and "virus free". If removing the screen, batteries and speaker could make a computer virus free, what are the anti-virus venders doing? And what would a low-income consumer want with a brick at home other than as a door stop? Waisted ink and silly if you ask me, especially with the recently available new class of netbooks. I just bought my wife a netbook that includes batteries, speakers and a screen for less than $350.00. Most low-income consumers have a $1000.00 wide screen TV. I think they can spend $350 on a laptop. The only other low-income consumer are homeless people, and frankly they have more things to worry about than mobile computing.