... don't think this is too much to ask. In addition to personal computers, many of the members of the Ethereal Lan Group have laptops that they bring to the gatherings in addition to their main personal computer. Those with laptops, myself included, should only bring their laptop to the party. Most of the games played could easily be played on the average ... laptop, especially with mobile processors becoming more powerful and reliable as technology increases. By bringing laptops instead of desktops we would save a ton of power. The laptop alone takes up less power than the desktop compute...

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... concerned, the laptop has been around for quite a long time. A laptop computer is a portable computer, about the size of a brief case. This is a good feature to save time and money. Laptops allow you to connect to fileservers or mini systems after you travel around with them. Once you are at your destination, you can give another system a "unit to unit" data ... exchange. This means you connect the laptops serial port to the other system's port and transfer data without external data. Diskettes are also capable of holding small quantities of information that can be used for transferring...

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... along, this is the apparent choice. Desktops have larger screens, and are easily expandable. A larger screen can be connected to a laptop model, but are an additional cost. There are some laptops, commonly called notebooks, which weigh less than five pounds. Notebooks tend to be higher priced than laptop systems due to the cost in developing the smaller and lighter components. If ... ...

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