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Microsoft releases new tablet hybrid

By Roy Herrera | October 29, 2012

As the holiday season approaches, some people are already making a list of products they want to purchase and deciding between a tablet or a laptop can be difficult. A tablet is more compact and offers the main features that a laptop has. A laptop, on...

Senior marketing major Marissa Jambrone, uses her laptop computer before class in the Jack Arends Visual Arts Building Monday afternoon.

Laptops in class provide tools, distractions for students

By Hailey Kurth | February 5, 2012

On Elle Woods' first day at Harvard, she walked, notebook in hand, into a classroom of laptop-wielding students. In Legally Blonde, a laptop seems to be the utensil of choice; at NIU, some students feel differently. Sophomore marketing major Joey Wolfe...

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