Whilst the debate rages on whether laptop and notebook computers are separate items or are, in fact, one and the same thing, some computer manufacturers have muddied the waters by producing notebook computers that can only be described as having a foot in both camps.
The accepted distinctions between laptops and notebooks have always been:
Notebook Computers:
- Possess a minimal graphic subsystem
- Longer battery life than a laptop
- Ultra portable and mobile because of a lightweight construction
- Less powerful than a laptop, typically utilising a Centrino/Celeron or Sempron processor
- Foregoing many features in order to remain lightweight
- Smaller screen size
- Smaller keyboard
- Inferior quality audio and visual capabilities (compared to a laptop)
- Integrated network connection and modem
Laptop Computer:
- Mobile, but, much heavier than its ultra thin, lightweight brother.
- Acts as a fully functioning personal computer (with the same abilities as a desktop computer)
- A powerful processor (possibly Intel Centrino)
- Superior quality visual and audio resources
- Larger screen size (14-17” TFT (widescreen) screen)
- Integrated Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, network and modem
- Large fully functioning keyboard
- Internal DVD-RW or DVD-ROM drive
- Top quality graphic subsystem (Nvidia GeForce or ATI Radeon)
When Acer, for example, produced their Acer Extensa series of notebook computers they appear to have forgotten to read the rule book and have produced a notebook that has aspirations of being a laptop, whilst retaining the advantages of extreme portability and low profile.
As technology and manufacturers continue to push the boundaries of our expectations for the usability of our laptop and notebook computers we will no longer be able to accept that a laptop is a poor man’s desktop computer nor that a notebook computer is, merely, a convenience for business travellers, but, is an essential business and personal P.C that doesn’t realise what it thinks it’s supposed to be only knows what it is… An asset.
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