Working with Portable PCs

Purposes of Portables PCs are

• You can use portable PCs while trav­el­ing, at home or any oth­er place of choice.

• Portable PCs are wide­ly used in var­i­ous fields such as sci­ence, edu­ca­tion and busi­ness.

Types of Portable PCs

• The dif­fer­ent types of portable PCs are:
  • Lap­tops
  • busi­ness
  • Note­books
  • Sub­note­books
  • Palm­tops
  • Tablet PC
  • Net­book

Important Points and Requirement of Portable PCs

• A net­top is a very small, inex­pen­sive, low waattage com­put­er designed for basic tasks and access­ing of web based applications.
• The moth­er­board is the most impor­tant com­po­nent of a laptop.

• The lap­tops most­ly sup­port Small Out­line Dual Inline Mem­o­ry Mod­ule (SODIMM)
• pack­ag­ing and use DDR2 or DDR3 mem­o­ry.

• Most lap­tops sup­port upto 8 GB of sys­tem memory.

• Intel’s Corei3 mobile proces­sor gives the per­for­mance that you need for today’s mobile multitasking.

• Using a Lap­top Hard Dri­ve Adapter, you can eas­i­ly con­nect your 2.5 inch note­book IDE hard dri­ve to a 40-pin IDE cable for instal­la­tion in a desk­top or tow­er PC.

• The DVD dri­ves on the lap­top enable trans­fer of data to and from opti­cal disks.

• The lithi­um ion bat­ter­ies are the most pop­u­lar ver­sion of lap­top bat­ter­ies presently.

• Dif­fer­ent types of bat­ter­ies are 6 cell, 8 cell, 9 cell and 12 cell depend­ing upon bat­tery backup.

• Lap­tops come with inbuilt wire­less port which most­ly sup­ports 802.12 b/g/n wire­less stan­dards.

• 3 in 1 media card Read­er is used to read the most com­mon tyoes of mobile device stor­age media i.e. Com­pact flash cards, Smart Media cards And IBM Micro drives.

• HDMI (High-Def­i­n­i­tion Mul­ti­me­dia Inter­face) is the best kind of dig­i­tal audio and video con­nec­tor avail­able today that promis­es to replace all con­nec­tors cur­rent­ly used by play­ers, cable/settlelite decoders, TV sets, video pro­jec­tors and video monitors.

• The rat­ing of AC adapters used in lap­tops is in between 65W to 80W.

• You must sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly fol­low trou­bleshoot­ing steps to solve lap­top problem.