Cost of a Gateway laptop with 12.1-in. display, 550MHz chip and a year of free AOL in 2000: $1300 ($1633 in today’s dollars)

Cost of a Dell Inspiron 15 laptop, with Intel® Core™ 2 Duo P7450 (2.13GHz/1066Mhz FSB/3MB cache), 15.6 inch display in 2009: $634

MP: Compared to just nine years ago, you can now get more than twice the laptop computer for less than half the price.

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