Laptops Versus Desktops [aboutcomputer99.blogspot.com]

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Question by JDK: Iam looking for an External Terabyte Hard-Drive that is compatible with dell and hp laptops/desktops? I need to have one that stores videos, pictures, and music. So please help me out! Best answer for Iam looking for an External Terabyte Hard-Drive that is compatible with dell and hp laptops/desktops?:

Answer by PenelopeM
Pretty much any external hard drive will work -- Western Digital, Seagate, whatever. If you're worried about it being formatted for Mac instead of Windows, just re-format it.

Answer by David N
Any usb 2.0 drive should work fine. The drive doesn't care what you put on it. http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=414&name=External-Hard-Drives http://www.officedepot.com/catalog/browseCatalog.do?fkey=keL6QygL4g6jhA51wmwnmHw&cbxRefine=328114&N=5+9976 http://www.officemax.com/technology/drives-memory-storage/hard-drives-usb-drives/external-hard-drives?refineName=Capacity&refineValue=1TB&view=list&history=eslvrsx4|categoryId~10004^categoryName~Technology^parentCategoryID~category_root^prodPage~25^region~1@m0a3qdri|categoryId~cat1310028^categoryName~drives-memory-storage^parentCategoryID~cat_10004^prodPage~25^region~1^refine~1@iy0bd9lu|categoryId~284^categoryName~hard-drives-usb-drives^parentCategoryID~cat_cat1310028^prodPage~25^region~1^refine~1@h3533h4o|prodPage~15^refine~1^region~1^categoryName~External+Hard+Drives^categoryId~cat10012^parentCategoryID~cat_284@6xao9l6m|prodPage~91^refine~1^position~1^region~1

[laptops and desktops]

Video card/VGU overheats overtime and causes video to fail. This reflow trick applies to most HP laptop DV models, PS3, XBox 360 and some of the desktops. Typical symptoms are screen flickers, blue screen dumps by the OS and automatic reboots, grey lines, dark screens (no video at all), system powering on and shutting off, no video and computer beeps to indicate a video problem, touchpad slows and freezes. This approach will fix just about any graphics chip/GPU chip rise thermal damage Issue. You can apply this method to fix faulty video cards and XBOX 360s (can be applied to CPU and GPU on the gaming systems). This particular demonstration is on a DV9000 laptop.

aboutcomputer99.blogspot.com Video card problem - Reflow - PS3, XBox 360, NVidia, ATI chipsets, DV Laptops and Desktops

If you are looking for a good comparison between laptops and desktop computers then you have come to the right place. Both desktops and laptops have their own advantages and disadvantages. Each has its own pros and cons, structures, benefits and reasons for use. Let us see which one is better!

One of the biggest pro arguments for laptops is their mobility, portability and compact size. The attraction of being able to compute, surf the web, watch movies, connect with friends and family, work and business as well as the benefits of use in school really make the argument for buying a laptop over a desktop. For traveling business people the laptop is an essential part of their daily life. Desktops are generally big and bulky machines that cannot be taken anywhere. On the other hand, laptops are mobile and can be carried for mobile computing anywhere. This also includes having a mobile Internet connection wherever you go.

The mobility of laptops also has a downs ide, because for that mobility the actual size of the unit and hence the space to have a variety of features and components is sacrificed. Most lightweight, and ultra portable laptops will have a lot less "power packed attributes" than their desktop counterparts. Now there is also the option of the desktop replacement laptop models, which are full of power packed features and components, but these are much less mobile than the lighter models of notebooks. So, overall, a desktop has a lot more space for all computing features that are accessible to the consumer.

Laptops also require less energy to run than desktops. Their battery power is stronger than the most desktops. PC's need more energy to run the entire system.

Another argument pro desktop is that many upgrades and add on components can be done at home by even the least techie of users. With laptops this is not so easy, as they are very complex in nature and the components of them cannot be easily dismantle d. So, for example, when a part of the desktop goes out, or we want to upgrade memory, or add an optical drive this is fairly easy to do with the desktop models, but not so with laptops, which means costs will be incurred for a tech person.

Notebooks also lack customization and wide configuration of the components. On the other hand, PC's comes with more expansion slots where we can add or modify new hardware. But when it comes to portability, the notebooks definitely tip the scale and many are using their laptops at home as well, so it does offer the best of both worlds.

Price sued to play a big role in consumers deciding the issue of laptop versus desktop, but these days that is much less of a concern. With the enormous competition amongst laptop manufacturers, the development of high-end technologies and the buyer demands laptops have become much more affordable than they used to be. Still, a fully loaded desktop with lots of bell and whistles can cost less th an an equivalent laptop, especially one with super power features, such as gaming and entertainment models that have high end processors, lots of RAM and a large hard drives.

In general, both systems have their pros and cons, it really comes down to what you expect from your machine, your needs and the price you are willing to pay.

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