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With the increasing amount of specific requirements many companies are developing products aimed at meeting these needs. Taiwanese manufacturer Acer is not far behind with its range of customer- centric products. Ultra-portable business laptops seem to be the new market. Keeping this in mind it launched the Ultra light and slim Acer TravelMate 6292-301G16 business laptop.

Constructed out of magnesium alloy this is an extremely durable laptop. The exterior is done in a grey colour with a stylish gunmetal metallic finish. It is powered by a 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor and a 2GB DDR II SDRAM that gives it an incredible processing power. The Acer TravelMate 6292-301G16MN features a 12.1 inch WXGA TFT active matrix screen with a maximum resolution of 1280 x 800. A whole lot of new features have been added to the laptop like the crystal eye webcam and 3D sonic speakers with surround sound. It comes equipped with Bluetooth, Draft-N wireless, Ethernet and a 56 kbps modem so connectivity should not be a problem. It has 160GB hard drive with anti-shock protection onboard which is decent enough. It also features an 8X super multi DVD burner and a 5 in 1 card reader which is a standard on most business laptops. There are 3 USB ports along with a VGA and S-Video ports on the laptop. A significant addition is the fingerprint reader that is great for keeping your vital data safe and your laptop secure. The battery life is very disappointing and it last about 2 hours.

The Acer TravelMate 6292-301G16 doesn’t really impress with its standard features but it definitely does what it is meant for. This practical, no-nonsense Acer laptop performs all functions and operations effortlessly.

Toshiba Portege A600 boasts of its lightweight body and is targeted at working professionals who travel a lot for their work. It weighs only 1.4 kilos and features a sleek design so that you can slip it in any normal sized carry bag and out it on your shoulders for longer duration. The Portege A600 from the Toshiba electronics manuacturer is fit to carry at corporate meetings and conferences, because of its elegant looks, decent styling, and of course reliable performance.

Another important fact about this laptop is its long battery life. It can provide seven and a half hours of juice in a single charge. You can play games on the Toshiba Portege A600, watch high definition movies with it, or browse through photos and accomplish practically any other task. The 12.1 inch widescreen XGA display offers unprecedented colour reproductions at a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. The Portege A600 is built around Intel Core 2 Duo Processor SU9300 clocked at a speed of 1.2GHz. This is backed by a 2GB RAM and hi-fi graphics chip that makes it easy to load and run resource hungry applications. Apart from this the laptop has got various interfaces to enable file sharing on the go. It has got two USB 2.0, one eSATA/USB 2.0 Sleep and Charge slots, an ExpressCard slot, HSDPA slot and an SD card slot and built-in slot for mobile data SIM card. For storage a 250GB hard drive is installed along with a DVD-RW SuperMulti drive which offers optical storage on the go.

Well, now that you are paying attention, it isn’t really like that. But the companies are really working hard to get the apple’s safari off their networks because it apparently ahs a bad habit of popping up.

According to Guardian.co.uk

“ Companies struggle as Safari pops up on networks is the headline of a story from IDG News, which contains the amusing factoid that: “On Friday, patch management vendor Shavlik Technologies announced that it had updated its Shavlik NetChk Protect software to detect and remove Safari.”

Apple, you may recall, tried to deceive users into installing its browser by presenting it as a “default update” when it wasn’t already installed. This has given companies problems. Cody Wilson, a network administrator with Soy Capital Bank and Trust in Decatur, Illinois, told IDG: “I went into work the next day and I scanned my network, and my inventory software said I have Safari on 30 PCs,” he said.
“This is not good; this is a security risk,” he said. “We’re a bank.”
Wilson said it has taken him the better part of a week to remove Safari from his network and prevent it from being reinstalled.”

However, we think all of this unfounded accusation and folks just exaggerate anything comes out for no real reason. The networks shared by some leading companies have all kinds of other software which has nothing to do with the functioning of these companies. Software like iTunes, QuickTime and loads of other trash can find a quiet camping ground there so why is simple, is important software like Apple’s safari such a big deal? Is everyone scared? Are these some cheap tricks companies and Safari’s competitors indulging in? (Remember the famous comments made by Mozilla’s chief?)