Sometimes (in laptops designed just for business use) you won’t get a very good sound system or graphics card, and that’s a good thing; they not cheap and if you aren’t a big gamer or music fan you won’t need them.

HTML emails are the darling of commercial operators for several reasons — not only do they look better, it’s easier to track how many people read them. And there’s no reason you can’t send HTML emails to show family photos, portfolio samples to a prospective employer or just to entice people to visit your own website.

Quark produced the first and (at one time) best tool for straightforward page layout that capitalised on the new possibilities of desktop publishing.