Laptop Computer

One of the most common items in the business world today, aside from the cell phone, is the laptop computer. These machines offer the functionality and all of the programs you can expect in a regular desktop computer, but it is miniaturized to the small scale of your lap. At first the idea was that these personal computers would be customized to specific fields, providing a small niche market. However, their abundant application in the business world has lead to laptop computers outselling desktops in 2008. This is important because it lays the groundwork for understanding how popular they are and in what ways they differ from desktop computers.

Laptops are small and getting smaller every day. In the 21st century subnotebooks and net books arose out of calls for a more simplified specialized machine. The output is a small computer that runs off a full scale operating system, but has minimal ports or excess drives. The whole system is optimized for battery efficiency and typically these ultra small laptops can last for up to 10 hours as compared to the 2 or 3 hours provided by full 15 to 19 inch laptops. These laptops also do not have as complicated video or physics drives or audio drives. The emphasis is on lightweight portability. For other laptops the emphasis shifts, as made available in the up and coming category of gaming laptops. These laptops are meant for performance applications and usually stress high operating speeds, random access memory and computer processing unit speeds, and focus on the visual and audio portions of the laptop. These machines are expensive and sometimes require additional cooling elements because the hardware runs at a high temperature. These are just a few of the variations between laptops and their differentiation from the normal desktop computer.