Laptops
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Laptop specifications vary considerably and it really depends what you need it to do. Manufacturers make trade-offs - slower processors enable the use of smaller, lighter batteries so it's important to know what you'll need to sacrifice to find your perfect laptop.
Processor
All processor manufacturers make processors that are especially designed to be compatible with today's mobile technology. Generally speaking, as in selecting a processor for a notebook computer, processor speed is a critical factor. We recommend you choose a notebook that offers the fastest processing speed you can afford.
Hard Drive
Hard drive capacities on notebooks range from 20GB to 100GB. Most users find that 40GB is big enough. The majority of mainstream notebook drives spin at 7,200 rpm. The faster a hard drive spins, the better the system's performance.
Optical Drive
A DVD/CD-RW combo drive reads DVDs and reads and writes CDs. The best equipped laptops will have a multiformat DVD writer drive, ensuring you can read and write on all major formats of recordable DVDs: DVD-R, +R, -RW, +RW and RAM. With dual-layer support, you can write twice the amount of data (or video) on a double-layered disc than you could on a standard disc, giving you an incredible 8.5 GB of capacity on each dual-layer DVD.
Wired Ethernet Networking
Wireless does offer greater freedom, but when you're not in an area with Wi-Fi access and want to use the traditional office Ethernet LAN, you'll find that almost all modern laptops will come with Ethernet adapters as standard, giving at least 10Mbps of data transfer. 100Mbps is not uncommon for those equipped with Fast Ethernet protocol, and this is increasingly the highest spec on network-ready notebooks. However, the best, and certainly not rare, is Gigabit Ethernet, giving an amazing 1000Mbps access. Whether Fast or Gigabit Ethernet enabled, the adapters have backwards compatibility to work with standard LANs at 10Mbps.
Wireless Networking
An integrated modem and wired Ethernet are included in almost all notebooks, and most come with built-in wireless antennas. To experience true communication freedom it pays to go wireless and before long virtually all mobile computers will be equipped to take advantage of this amazing technology.
Laptop Display Size
Laptop screens range in size from 12.1 inches (diagonal) to 17 inches. For comfortable viewing at the preferred Windows resolution of 1024x768, most people prefer a 14.1inch or larger screen.
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