LAPTOP TYPES
June 14th, 2007 by 
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Lightweight Laptops
A laptop is a small, portable computer, small enough that to sit on one’s lap. Laptops computers are more frequently called notebook computers, though technically laptops are somewhat smaller in size than notebooks.An extremely lightweight personal computer, a small compact portable computer typically weigh less than 5 pounds and are small enough to fit easily in a briefcase for those users who are constantly on the move. Aside from size and portability, the main difference between a notebook computer and a personal computer is the display screen, Laptop computers are bit larger than notebooks.
Lightweight laptops come with battery packs that enable you to run them without plugging them in. However, the batteries need to be recharged every few hours.
The core audiences of the lightweight laptop category are business travelers, students and professionals on the move.
Very good performance is offered by a lightweight laptop equipped with both Intel’s Pentium M and AMD’s Athlon XP-M mobile processors. They generally range From 1.5 to 2 GHz, and RAM. In these systems varies from 256MB to 512MB. If you want 4 hours or more of battery life on a charge, however, Pentium M is the way to go.
Lightweight laptops don’t have a lot of space for motherboards and other components. Most lightweights sport 14-inch displays, which is good enough for viewing everything from e-mail and Web pages to Word and Excel documents. The good news is that an increasing number of lightweight laptop systems feature 15- or 15.4-inch widescreens for those who want more space for everything, From DVD playback to video editing.
In this class of laptops Wi-Fi is pretty much expected so users can connect to wireless networks at home, on the road or at work. Today, 802.11g is standard, but 802.11a/g is available on some laptops for those who want to be able to connect at faster speeds on the more privileged 5GHz band.
Obviously, you will not find in a lightweight laptop as many as in desktop replacements, but three or four USB 2.0 ports can often be encountered, for connecting all sorts of peripherals and in many cases a FireWire port, which is great for importing video from a digital camcorder.
Video support is better in these systems than in ultraportables. A 60 GB hard disk drive in an ultra small laptop is considered high-capacity. Intel’s Extreme Graphics chip, which is found often in this category, delivers fine movie playback but only decent gameplay.
The pros:
- Fine performance without the bulk, offer built-in or external connections for, additional monitors , CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs, modems.
- Extended battery life
- Light enough for the road , small enough to take aboard air transport as ‘carry-on’ luggage.
- Full-sized keyboards
The cons:
- Not as powerful as desktop replacements.
- 14-inch screens may prove too small for some.
Cost Higher then a normal PC due to the cost of building mini components.
There are four main areas where these laptops perform better than regular laptops. First and foremost: speed in 2D tasks. Secondly, they are quick at manipulating video, audio and photos like a PC that a few per cent here and there doesn’t really matter. Secondly, 3D gaming speeds, and they are equally good at it. Thirdly, battery life of these laptops is more, so you can use the laptop on the train, in the garden or just on the sofa when you can’t be bothered to take the power supply with you. Finally, in general use, like watching a DVD, sound quality, browsing the web, the keyboard type etc., and even in areas these machines perform as good as PC’s and one can really notice the difference in these machinesGaming Laptops
Regular laptops are usually less expensive and designed for consumers with a 1 year or 90 day warranty typically with a Celeron chip.Business laptops often have 3 year warranty and are more fully featured with Pentium chips. These laptops are often leased to corporations or are more expensive than the consumer models.
The gaming laptops are the most expensive with the fastest CPU, large display, graphics chip and lots and lots of RAM but are very cool in terms of performance when its used for gaming purpose.
The gaming laptop is the biggest offering for a serious mobile gamer. A gaming laptop powered by a high performance processor like the AMD dual core, Intel Pentium 4 or Pentium M processors is the fastest laptop available anywhere — for gaming, digital content creation or any other pursuit. A gaming laptop is just what mobile gamers deserve - a laptop with the power to match a gaming desktop when the competition involves advanced 3D graphics and fast frame rates. Also , a gaming laptop sports flashy and good design, advanced and incredibly powerful video cards designed for gaming laptops like Acer’s Ferrari 3000LMi and Dell’s Inspiron 8600 series.
The best gaming laptops available in market are:
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DELL XPS SERIES
TOSHIBA P SERIESZEPTO MACHINES
Wi Fi Laptops
Freedom from wires is nothing but Wi-Fi or Wireless Fidelity. It allows you to connect to the Internet anywhere - without wires. It is 10 times faster than a regular dial-up connection.New Laptops are generally WI-Fi enabled.When you use a laptop, you might llike to have some level of mobility, and can’t or don’t want to be confined to a single desk all day. But to truely make good use of your laptop computer, it is a smart idea to go for a Wi Fi laptop. This will allow anyone to access the internet from anywhere in your home or office without any interference of wires etc. The Wi Fi laptop connects to the network using radio signals, and laptops can be up to 100 feet or so apart.
If you have a wireless network or wi-fi card on your laptop then you can use it on the Airports which has wireless internet access.
It has been predicted that embedded wireless LAN are to be included as standard offerings on essentially all laptops within the next five years.
Dual Core Laptops
The dual core laptop is the most talked about topic in the dual core/processor world. Dual-core processing in laptops, in short, lets one multitask much more efficiently. The dual core processor also boasts itself of delivering optimized power efficient computing and breakthrough performance with amazingly low power consumption. With TV tuners and video becoming as popular and important to some users as word, excel and powerpoint, this technology couldn’t have come at a better time. With a Core Duo laptop one can record a television show in the background, and at same time edit video and browse the Web. If one tries to do that with today’s single-core laptops, one is likely to experience rough and sluggish computing; but with the new dual core laptop processors, it’s smooth sailing.The advantage of dual core laptops is that one chip takes less power than two.Therefore the cooling requirements are lower and the battery life on a laptop is longer. A dual core chip allows dual core laptops to perform operations on multithreaded applications very smoothly.You can Run multiple demanding applications simultaneously on your laptop.
Latest Dual core Notebooks available in the market are :
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