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Laptop Vs Notebook Debate

Summary by Sarah Maple, edited by Ferdinand Rinaldy

It has an innate ability to divide opinion, and create ‘experts’ out of nowhere, at the risk of sounding sexist, particularly amongst men.

Last week I casually announced to friends that I was thinking of buying a laptop or notebook, but hadn’t quite figured out the exact difference between the two. The response from ‘instant experts’ was overwhelming; suddenly the bottle of Pinot we were about to order became low priority.

“There absolutely is,’ replied another, ‘ there’s a huge difference on internal memory capacity for a start.”

“Possibly size?” From what I’d figured out, the main difference between the two was that notebooks were smaller, more easily portable. My confusion had only been that if I purchased a notebook, would I miss out on using my new toy as a ‘proper’ computer.

“It’s only a branding thing – some companies call all their laptops are notebooks – that’s all it is.”

We agreed that we would disagree and I finished the conversation none the wiser.

Some companies do, it seems, quite simply call their laptops ‘notebooks’ – whilst other companies use the term notebook to refer to a different product. Their version is lightweight, offers longer battery life, but has no DVD player and there’s some techy difference about ‘processors’. A young man with dubious skin tried, but failed, to explain the differences. Armed with this list, I hit the safety of online shops, late at night. “Nice laptop.”

Laptops, Notebooks or Portable Computers
Summary by Adam Knife

The current popular classifications of portable “smart” electronics allow everything to fall in to one or more of six categories: full laptop, thin-and-light laptop, UMPC, tablet PC, smart phone, or PDA.

Some laptops have dedicated graphics processors, however, most in the consumer price range do not – thus, gaming on laptops can be difficult and pricey.

With the majority of the same features of the full laptops, thin-and-lights usually sport 13- or 14-inch screens, light weight, and many energy conserving features to optimize battery life. These laptops also will not work well for gaming, but for business and web related work, will work amazingly.

UMPCs are usually small enough to fit in one hand, sport a variety of styles, usually a QWERTY keyboard, Windows XP or Tablet Edition operating system, low specifications, and generally low battery life.

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