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Highs and Lows You don't need to spend a fortune on office equipment.or do you? From cheap to posh, here are our picks for the tools you need.

By Amanda C. Kooser

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You know there's more than one way to scan a cat. You can dothe job with an expensive scanner . . . or acheap one. Which to buy? It depends on what you're doing. Ifyou need to make photo-quality reprints, you want to buy high. Ifyou just need to add Fluffy the Office Cat to the company Web site,go low. We looked at high- and low-cost examples of desktops,laptops, Palm PCs, printers, scanners, ergonomic chairs and digitalcameras. It's OK to go all out on the equipment you really needif you take it easy on the supplies that are less-than-crucial foryour business. A few hundred dollars saved on a Palm PC plus a fewhundred saved on a printer can add up to get you a lot morelaptop.

Palm PCs

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