What to buy: the family home office

Your home office is rarely yours alone. It might be help you crank out professional-looking work-product from 9:00 to 5:00 Monday through Friday. But after hours and on the weekend, it becomes a multitasking, multi-user system for everything from assembling and printing school reports to streaming movies from Netflix. Here's one home-office setup, combining our current favorite desktop Mac with a top-rated multifunction printer, high-capacity backup drive, and speakers, that will handle it all.

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