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The Life Of A Laptop

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I remember in the olden days when there was not any laptops. You had your desktop at work, so when you left work, what you didn't finish was done the next day.

Then there was the diskette where you could transfer your data from your work desktop to the home desktop. This way work could still get done. The internet came along and now the laptop where we can transfer that undone work between our computers. As you all know, the diskette is gone and the USB drive took its place.

The huge advantage of a laptop is you have no wires to get in your way. You put the laptop in a briefcase and off you go. The extras such as the external hard drives and USB sticks can stay in the briefcase until needed. For my usage, I have a wireless mouse to help me out where I can use it, otherwise I use the built in mouse pad.

The laptops usually contain a Wi-Fi interface that is built in. Just turn the laptop on and it will seach for a wireless hotspot. You will get a list of hotspots to jump onto. Some are free, some you have to pay for. It is best to have your own account so that you can hop onto a hotspot whenever you get a chance. Some hotspot providers will provide you with a USB card.

Desktops were to be the more powerful computer and the laptop was to just carry the minimum to do light processing. As it turned out, some of the laptops have more memory and hard drive space than your mid-size desktop. This is how technology evolved to make the hardware more compact. Desktops are still bulky and they need electricity to run. A laptop can run on batteries, thus eliminating the electric power. The batteries in the laptop usually last for 2 hours before needing to be recharged.

Since the laptops use both battery and electric, modifications were made to the power grid so that the components (hard drive, memory, fan, etc) would run off a 12 volt system. They also built into the power grid a management system where this would provide for a lower power consumption.

Today there is a hard choice to make when buying computers. Do you want a laptop or a desktop. Price wise they are pretty close. It would come down to what your needs are. Desktops have the larger and heavier components. Desktops have a separate display and speaker system. Laptops have all this built in to include the mouse. Actually a laptop sound card is just as good as a desktop's sound card. You can get almost the same storage space and ram in a laptop as in a desktop.

One problem with the laptop is the damage factor. Laptops can be dropped easier and knocked around, where desktops are out of the way. Replacement parts are more costly for the laptop than for the desktop. Now that the cost of the laptop is way down, there are more in use than there are desktops.

It is handy to carry laptops with you on a vacation or trip. Maps can be downloaded to the laptop to show the way. My wife and I like to hold concerts, so we carry our music with, in case we can do a non-scheduled performance. Laptops are not bad for gaming. Usually the video card is built into the chipset, so you can't upgrade to a better video card like you can with a desktop. I fly my flight simulator on the laptop and when comparing to the desktop which has a video card, it is hard to see any difference in the graphics.

I have been using both the laptop and desktop for a number of years. I do find advantages with both computer types. I do favor my laptop because if I have to go away on a trip, the laptop is all ready to go. Most of my files are in sync with each other so what is on the laptop is also on the desktop.

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