10 good reasons

Infomatics' post tray overflows with piles of press releases: some pleading, some mere puffery ... some even have a point. From now on the cheekiest, the geekiest or the one that simply catches our eye will find a place to rest. Yes, it's the all new 'Nice Try of the Month' column.

Someone in the Fujitsu press office has been caught red-handed sending out a press release entitled 'New Labour, New Laptop'. The bright spark has latched on to the Cabinet Office's recent admission that they may replace the famous ministerial red boxes with laptop computers. With the whiff of a potential sale in the air, "Number 10 good reasons why they should" was promptly dispatched on beautifully embossed corporate red paper. Here they are for your enjoyment.

1 Confidentiality - password protected systems mean no leaks or damaging revelations

2 Communication - remote Email access to advisers, cabinet colleagues, the Internet and Whitehall intranets

3 Environment - less unfriendly paper

4 Weight - a Fujitsu LifeBook weighs 1.9kg; a fully-laden red box about 5kg

5 Storage - a laptop can hold thousands of pages of A4 documents; at a push a red box can hold a few hundred

6 Speed - instant access to the latest developments at No.10 and around the world

7 Technology - Gordon Brown could present his budget with full-colour graphs and charts

8 Fun - Tony Banks could play Fantasy Football online

9 Red leather - Fujitsu could provide a special red leather laptop case for traditionalists in the cabinet

10 Compromise - because paper will continue to play a part in Minister's lives, a Fujitsu laptop will fit snugly inside one of the old red boxes.