Tham khảo Máy tính xách tay cuốn sách của tôi Đối với Dummies (Wiley Publishing, Inc) cho rất nhiều thông tin máy tính xách tay tốt, bao gồm chi tiết về an ninh, thiết lập, kết nối mạng không dây, và pin. Là một lạc hậu tuổi, người đã có kinh doanh máy tính cho khá trong một, | 144 Part II Hardware and Software Overview Refer to my book Laptops For Dummies Wiley Publishing Inc. for lots of good laptop information including details on setup security wireless networking and battery power. As an old fogey who has been around the computer business for quite a while I prefer the term laptop over notebook. When you shop you often see either term or both terms. I use laptop because it was the first term used to describe this type of computer back in the late 1980s. Laptop Considerations Desktop computers won their fame by being expandable. Laptop computers won their fame by sacrificing expandability for portability you don t buy a laptop with the notion of upgrading it later. You buy a laptop to have a computer anywhere you are in a plane flying across the country in a coffee shop or in a bungalow over the lagoon in Bora Bora. All technical descriptions of a desktop computer apply to laptops as well microprocessor RAM and disk storage for example. Beyond that laptops have special considerations that desktop users would never dream of. Chief among these are 1 Microprocessors Battery life Weight Pointing device Removable or swappable drives Communications Each of these considerations is discussed in this section. What about software There s nothing special about software on a computer laptop. If the program works on a desktop system it also works on the laptop model. Some applications have special minimum installation options so as not to use too much of the laptop s hard drive space. Plus you may find some special laptop software that helps you use your portable system such as a program to use the fax machine or wireless modem or to configure the system to play music on a portable MP3 player but that software typically comes with the laptop itself. Chapter 14 Special Issues for Notebook and Laptop Computers 145 Some hardware you may want to have in a PC laptop Recently Intel announced a new laptop technology named Centrino. It s a marketing term
