March 30, 2012 10:50 AM | By Marc Saltzman, MSN Tech & Gadgets
Laptops: Then and now

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A typical 2002 laptop might be powered by a 1.6 GHz Pentium 4 processor and 256MB of system memory (RAM), which would be considerably slower -- and unable to multitask smoothly -- compared to 2012's average-powered laptop with a second-generation Intel Core i5-2450M processor (at 3.10GHz) and 6GB of dual-channel RAM. That's like going from a Kia to a Porsche.

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