The Complete Laptop Computer Guide: How to Choose and Get the Most Out of Your Portable PC or Mac

by David H. Rothman

Tells how to select the portable computer that best suits one's needs, discusses computer viruses, theft, and fax transmission, and offers advice on traveling with a computer

384 pages, Paperback

About the author

David H. Rothman, author of the just-published Drone Child and an earlier novel, The Solomon Scandals, is a former poverty beat reporter. The Washington City Paper praised Scandals for "the same dark zeal Hammett held for Frisco or Chandler had for Los Angeles." In addition, Rothman has written six nonfiction books on technology topics. Junior Boweya in Kinshasa, a translator, software-localization expert, and businessman, fact-checked Child and otherwise offered an invaluable Congolese perspective. So did the activist Jean Félix Mwema Ngandu, a former Mandela Fellow. Read more at DroneChild.com and SolomonScandals.com.