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Mobile Makeover: Business Traveler Product Roundup
LAPTOP Magazine rebuilds a business traveler’s aging machine with new hardware and peripherals for better performance and longer battery life on the go.

by Kenneth Butler on Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Each month, LAPTOP Magazine upgrades one lucky reader’s old personal computer with the help of our sponsor, NewEgg.com.

Watch our Mobile Makeover Business Edition video here »

For this month’s Mobile Makeover, we retooled a business executive’s aging Dell Inspiron notebook. A frequent business traveler, our subject needed a machine that would operate more than one application at a time with greater efficiency, would last longer on a battery charge, and would fit neatly into his work-anywhere lifestyle. With those requisites in mind, we souped up his device with 4GB of RAM, a new solid state drive, a high-security portable storage drive, and other tech perks to help make working on the road more productive and more fun.

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