Perhaps the reviewer considers those items to be "essential" to a
serious laptop user. For example, if you travel and use a laptop
exclusively...they might be essential.
Thane Sherrington wrote:
At 07:58 AM 03/01/2007, j maccraw wrote:
Certainly they are essential!
Dictionary.com disagrees:
es·sen·tial
–adjective
1. absolutely necessary; indispensable: Discipline is essential in an
army.
The laptop would function fine without any of these. That makes them
non-essential. Very nice to have, perhaps. Extremely useful. But not
essential.
T
