| Notebooks have emerged as a bare | | | | yardstick to test various components of |
| essential for the business executives | | | | notebooks such as hard-disk general |
| who carry their work along with | | | | usage, multithreading, web-page |
| themselves. Notebooks which are also | | | | rendering, file decryption and 3D pixel |
| known as laptops can facilitate the work | | | | shader. |
| process thereby saving substantial and | | | | Moreover, the battery back-up and |
| valuable time. In short, it is used as | | | | wireless connectivity can be tested |
| tool of time management. | | | | using Battery Mark02 and QCheck as the |
| Owning a notebook is a dream of many, | | | | benchmark. |
| but since it is very expensive nobody | | | | Finally, Vista Compatibility Check can |
| buys it unless it is indispensable to | | | | be undertaken to test if the notebooks |
| them. However, some people having | | | | have Vista-readiness. Under this test, |
| shoe-string budget look for a good | | | | the performance of the laptops is |
| notebook. They are the ones who need | | | | assessed on the basis of Vista drivers |
| detailed and comprehensive information | | | | and Vista upgradeability. |
| on notebooks and laptops before they | | | | Features: |
| settle for one. | | | | When it comes to features, the list |
| Basically, buying a notebook or laptop | | | | seems endless. Some expensive notebooks |
| largely depends upon the personal | | | | have the most advanced features such as |
| choice, specific requirement and social | | | | built-in webcams, fingerprint readers, |
| status of a person. Besides, different | | | | TPM and so on. So far as the features |
| manufacturers are introducing notebooks | | | | go, they can be divided into five |
| of different look with a wide-range of | | | | different categories, such as: |
| features. However, some notebooks are | | | | Physical - Screen size and weight of the |
| launched in the market to cater to a | | | | notebook |
| particular segment of buyers keeping in | | | | Connectivity - Bluetooth version 1/2, |
| mind of their specific needs. | | | | infrared, MMC reader, S-Video, DVI port, |
| Accordingly, these laptops differ in | | | | FireWire. The number and type of USB |
| flavor, class and quality. | | | | ports and PCMCIA slots. |
| Let`s take a look at the various types | | | | Components - Type of optical drives, |
| of notebooks that are available in the | | | | whether the notebook has a DVD combo, a |
| market today. Keeping various factors in | | | | CD-RW or a multi-recorder DVD-RW. The |
| consideration the notebooks can be | | | | hard-drive capacity and any additional |
| broadly divided into four major | | | | component such as wireless optical mouse |
| categories, such as: | | | | or an MMC adapter. |
| Budget laptops - Typically, these | | | | Software - Software have always been an |
| laptops cost around US$ 1000 to $ 1200. | | | | essential part of the package. These |
| Mid-range laptops - Notebooks of this | | | | include recovery CDs, driver CDs, OSes, |
| category can be found with a price-tag | | | | etc. |
| of about US$1200 to $1600. | | | | Protection - All types of protection |
| Ultra-portable laptops - These | | | | available in a notebook, be it a |
| light-weight laptops ranges from US$1600 | | | | finger-print reader, BIOS level HDD |
| to $2200. | | | | protection, touch-pad lock, TPM, or even |
| Laptops for the people with a class | | | | rescue option available at the time of |
| apart. With all the standard and | | | | boot up. |
| advanced features in these notebooks, | | | | Pricing and Warranty: |
| they cost above US$2200. | | | | All notebooks ranging from $1200 to |
| Performance test of laptops: | | | | $4500 offer warranty of 1 year and some |
| Notebooks can be tested on the basis of | | | | laptops have the option of additional |
| certain benchmarks such as Multimedia | | | | extendable warranty. |
| content creation 2003 and Business | | | | So, the above discussed comprehensive |
| Winston 2002. These tests determine the | | | | analysis and performance tests will |
| performance ability of different | | | | definitely help those who are planning |
| notebooks with regard to regular | | | | to buy a laptop. |
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| Similarly, 3D Mark05 and 3D Mark06 are | | | | previous authorization from the author. |
| used as standards to measure the gaming | | | | However the author's name and all the |
| and graphic potential of different | | | | URLs (links) mentioned in the article |
| notebooks. | | | | and biography must be kept. |
| Likewise, PC Mark05 is taken as a | | | | |