The debate is certain to enter a new phase when the machines go into full-scale production by Taiwan-based Quanta Computer, the world's second-largest laptop maker.
Dell, the second largest maker of personal computers behind Hewlett-Packard, is trying to expand beyond its roots in laptop and desktop computers to higher margin products like servers and data storage for corporations.
Morgan Stanley says the city is turning into the largest laptop manufacturing base in Asia.
Quanta, the world's largest laptop maker, plans to build a "manufacturing city" in Shanghai with the capacity to produce five million laptops a year.
The second, larger, problem, is that there is no true conflict-free phone or laptop currently on the market.
Desktop Replacement/Ultrabook - These are the largest laptops, and therefore the most powerful (and most expensive).
Sadly, the apps don't actually exploit the much larger laptop screen real estate.
Nigeria is the eighth largest.
There's another way, however: larger laptops.
Perhaps that's why journalists were among the first to really embrace the first laptop computers.
Even on tight budgets, consumers continued to buy laptops in large quantities and flocked to netbooks, which accounted for more than one-fifth of laptop sales in regions like Europe.
