Features of latest laptops
Technology has taken a dramatic turn over recent past and laptop manufacturing companies have gone beyond imagination when it comes to build complete notebook full of features. Now laptops are good enough for complete office work load, heavy computing processing power for engineering needs and advance uses, graphical usage or even entertainment purposes. You name your requirements and you will see every brand of laptops meeting those needs. Following are the features which I think we may have never thought would be available in small machine which we can carry any were with us.
1. It is amazing to have LCD sizes to 8 inches to 22 mega size screens. Now wider screens in different sizes are also available in market easily.
2. Weight of the laptops were never thought to be very light, earlier laptops had weight more than 4kgs and now laptops which are standard 14 inches screens are available in lesser than 2Kgs of weight. The bigger the LCD the heavier the machines will be. One can choose smaller size screen for even lesser weight for better mobility.
3. There were times when CDs reading was the only functionality in CD ROM drives and having CD writers where expensive but now laptops comes with DVD reader + DVD writer, which burns audio CDs and DVD also. Now latest laptops are introducing Blue ray feature. Blue ray disc is also known as DB, and its main use is to support high definition videos and data storage. Blue ray disc can support 50 GB of data.
4. LAN or Ethernet was common networking feature in older model laptops and Ethernet cables were use to connect to laptops to any sort of network, but now laptops comes equipped with cutting edge wireless technology known as Wi-Fi, or Wireless LAN. Wireless LAN enable notebook to connect to internet or WLAN wirelessly. This feature enable mobile computing concept in true sense. Bluetooth is also introduced to connect to Bluetooth enable networks or file sharing purpose with Bluetooth enable devices.
5. Security of notebook it self has been introduced by developing finger print reader mechanism on laptop for preventing unauthorized access. This feature has reduced theft of information by preventing access to computer from intruders.
6. Graphical cards which used to hardly support standard window based games are now supporting very heavy, 3D direct X10 supported games. Memory for graphical cards is scorching high which can as high as 1 GB.
7. Improved battery life for laptops has increased usage of laptops world wide. Now laptops can support up to 4 hrs back time which can give enough time to work in field.
8. Webcams comes pre installed in top of the LCD, this enable video conferencing on go without having to plug the cam externally. Build in mice also pre-installed for voice communication.
9. High definition port is now come with new laptops, this port enable to get display on bigger LCD, projectors for presentations. USB ports are now in more quantity which enables more devices to connect to laptop.
10. External memory card slots are also available in latest laptops. This feature enables to read external memory cards from Mobile phones, digital cameras for file sharing purposes.
Laptops have improved; they are available in hundreds of GB data capacity, GB of RAM available for programming and running heavy and advance software, higher screen resolutions for graphical work or picture quality conscious users, higher graphical cards and crystal quality sound and so much more have changed the way we use our notebooks machines now. It will be interesting to know what features are yet discovered and yet to be experienced by the world