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The "mix" between desktop and laptop PCs flipped toward the laptop side of the equation for most of the world's PC manufacturers five years ago. The reason, it was surmised at the time, is that the nature of the workforce is changing: that "the office," as we have come to know it, is no longer rooted to a desk.

A report issued Wednesday by Forrester Research analyst T. J. Keitt flies completely in the face of that supposition. Data accumulated by Forrester suggests a seemingly self-contradictory phenomenon: Although more U.S.-based IT departments supply their workers with laptops, the most mobile workers in today's workforce are least likely to use a laptop more than a desktop computer. In fact, more professionals who think they're more mobile than most, are actually chained to wherever their desktop PC is.