Gone are the days when a businessperson needed a desktop at work, a
desktop at home, and a large, cumbersome laptop for travel. With the
steady march of technology come lighter, more portable laptops with
higher performance than ever before. Processors are advanced enough on
almost any laptop to consider completely doing away with your desktop PC
altogether.
For the gamers out there, laptops have always been
too slow and too far behind the technological bandwagon to consider
replacing your gaming computer with one. Now, however, laptops are being
designed with the gamer in mind with faster processors, bigger screens,
and high end graphics.
For the student going off to school, a
small, lightweight laptop means that you can take your laptop to class
with you to take notes as fast as you can type (which is often a lot
faster than you can write), and be sure that they will always be
legible. Additionally, laptops can have planner features to help you
remember when that next assignment is due, and you will never lose your
notes or keep them in a disorganized pile. Even if the rest of your life
is a little hectic, keeping a laptop as your new PC can help your
grades considerably.
If you decide that it is worth the
investment to be able to bring your laptop to work and home with you,
technology is allowing for easy set-up of your laptop with a docking
station that makes time-consuming plugs a thing of the past.
There are so many benefits to consider to using a laptop as your new desktop computer. These include:
1) having your work with you at all times
2) creating far more desk and floor space now that your huge tower and monitor are gone
3) the ability to work from any location with a wireless network set up
With
the only negative aspects being: if you feel the need to have the most
modern technology available, you will find it difficult to upgrade many
laptops, and laptops are more expensive than a desktop because of the
size and convenience.
Laptops for the Businessperson:
o Dell Latitude D820
o Acer TravelMate 4650
o HP Compaq nx9420 (2.16GHz, 1GB RAM)
o Apple PowerBook G4 (17-inch)
The
Dell laptop is an excellent business portable, and is priced around
fifteen hundred dollars. It is one of the highest rated laptops for
replacement of a PC, and the reviews call it perfect for the modern
businessperson.
The Acer TravelMate is a great value for the
price. It has a good battery life and nice processing power with all the
features a home-office user will need. The Acer costs around twelve
hundred dollars, making it the least expensive laptop on this list.
The
third laptop, the HP Compaq, offers corporate caliber security
according to the reviews, and has a nicely sized seventeen-inch screen
for ease of use for those of us who stare at computer screens all day.
This model is a lot more expensive, though, running between two thousand
and twenty-two hundred dollars.
Last on our list, the Apple
PowerBook delivers the features and power that most users require, but
at two thousand dollars is more expensive than comparable Windows
laptop. Still, it is a good option for replacing your bulky desktop PC.
Laptops for the Gamer:
o Dell XPS M1710
o Toshiba Satellite P105-S921
o Toshiba Qosmio G25-AV513
o HP Pavilion zd8000
Hard
core gamers will appreciate the Dell XPS, which will play the newest
games at the highest settings. Running at thirty-four hundred dollars,
though, this laptop does not come cheap. With all the technology packed
into this case, it will at least be a long time before you need an
upgrade.
The Toshiba Satellite offers lots of features for an
affordable price, but will not play the most intensive games at their
highest performance levels. This is still a wonderful machine, and will
cost about two thousand dollars.
The Toshiba Qosmio is designed
to deliver the most high-quality multimedia experience available in a
laptop. The Qosmio combines TV, DVR, stereo, DVD player, and
high-performance PC in one big laptop. Replace your entire entertainment
system (except maybe the speakers) for anywhere from fourteen hundred
to twenty-four hundred. It seems like shopping around for this model
might be well in your best interests.
The HP Pavilion's price is a
relief at only twelve hundred dollars, is powerful and can play many of
the newer games, if not quite the newest according to reviews.
Accessories to Consider
These
laptops are all wonderful replacements for the bulky desktop computer
sitting in your home office right now. There are just a few more things
you need to make your laptop absolutely perfect for your office or game
room.
When you go on the road all you need is your laptop and
power cable, but when you bring your computer back home, you might feel
more comfortable using an external keyboard, mouse, and monitor. The
hook-ups for these can be painful if you have to do it frequently, but a
docking port takes away the stress by mirroring all the ports, plugs,
and slots on your laptop.
The first accessory that everyone
should consider is a docking port. Especially wonderful for business
users, these ports hook up to your printer, scanner, keyboard, monitor,
mouse, network cables, power source, and any other gadgets you need them
to. Instead of connecting a dozen or more wires and cables every time
you move your laptop, push the laptop into the docking port and one
little connection brings you back online with everything you need.
The
rest of the accessories suggested here are just options, so we'll be
brief. An external mouse, keyboard, and monitor might make you more
comfortable at your desk, and a joystick or controller of another sort
might be essential to the hardcore gamers.
No matter what you are
considering your new laptop for, replacing your space-eating desktop PC
is a move that you will never regret. Your new laptop will be portable,
powerful, and just more fun because of all th
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