Laptop

Performance

However, newer types of laptops now rival desktops. These desknotes or desktop replacements are the result of the development of more powerful batteries, and the practice of installing desktop components directly into desknotes, making them equivalent in performance with desktops of similar specifications, albeit much larger than their laptop predecessors. As a result desknotes are generally too bulky to carry around, and most people who use these computers at their place of work will tend to carry them around less frequently.

Related Topics:
Desknote - Batteries

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The relative difference in performance between desktops and desknotes has therfore gradually decreased as developers continually attempt to upgrade the performance of desknotes.

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However, while laptops continue to provide the mobility which desknotes may not possess, sales of standard laptops have remained high regardless of the extra performance desknotes provide.

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Some companies who market "laptops" with the full power of a desktop, or even a server, often misrepresent what the concept of a laptop encompasses. For example, Vertegri of Canada once sold full Macintosh clone machines in a large laptop case, with no battery; and Tadpole Computers line of SPARC laptops have everything from dual processors to full-size PCI slots, but some models again have no battery. These machines are closer to the Transportables of an earlier time, but use a standard laptop form factor.

Related Topics:
Vertegri - Macintosh clone - Tadpole Computer - SPARC - PCI

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