Desktops and Notebooks: 10 Laptops and Desktops to Check Out This Holiday Season

As the 2008 holiday season approaches, there are a number of laptops and desktops that have just hit the market and might make a compelling gift this December. In addition to Apple with its new MacBooks and MacBook Pros, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Toshiba, Gateway and other vendors have new notebooks ready for the consumer market this holiday season. For those interested in a more conventional desktop, Dell is offering the $949 XPS Studio, which uses the new Intel Core i7 processor.