Sentences with phrase «than a desktop computer»

They have data limits and often the speed of their internet is much lower than a desktop computer.

While most gamers would have laughed a few years ago if you suggested using a laptop, some of todays models are powerful enough to handle your intense graphic rich games at a price that is often more affordable than a desktop computer.

These «soft exosuits» weigh just 9 kilograms, and use just 140 watts of electricity — slightly more than a desktop computer.

In fact, many market studies show that people prefer accessing digital content more often on smartphones and tablets than desktop computers.

In some instances tablets are even more valuable than desktop computers.

It uses 7 times less power than a television and 6 times less than a desktop computer and monitor.

Those little black terminals that you see in small retail stores usually cost $ 100 — $ 300 and a full - fledged POS system is a little more than a desktop computer, less than $ 2000.

Nowadays, more people read their emails on their smartphones than desktop computers.

Not exact matches

Smartphones are now more powerful computers than PCs were a decade ago, and these advances bring with them even more technological delight — and questions about privacy — than their desktop brethren, thanks to always - on GPS.

By 2021, more than 26 percent of leisure travelers and 20 percent of business passengers globally will be «mobile only,» operating with smartphones and tablets rather than laptop or desktop computers, according to the Atmosphere report.

The company still designs very unique computer chassis, like the triangle - shaped Area - 51 desktop — which can shred through Windows 10 or any game in encounters — to its tiny Alpha gaming desktop, which looks and plays more like a gaming console than a PC.

In fact, they use their mobile device to surf the web more often than they use a desktop computer.

In the spring of 1991, an associate from MIT looked at me and said, «You know, that computer you use for word processing and desktop publishing is more than a tool — It's a medium.»

At home I'm used to working at my desk where I am lucky enough to work from more than one computer or on my desktop computer which is connected to 3 screens.

The specs on the XBox One might just be better than those in your current desktop computer.

You'll need to be on a desktop computer or a laptop rather than a mobile.

Between smartphones, tablets, ebook readers, and, of course, desktop and laptop computers, you may read online more often than off.

With such chips, more personal computers will meet various efficiency standards, such as Energy Star compliance (which mandates that a desktop consume no more than 65 watts).

«Stopping e-waste is proving very complicated and difficult,» particularly because the newest gadgets, such as tablet computers, are even more difficult to recycle than old desktop computers.

Some are heading for the clouds — cloud computing, that is, a pay - as - you - go service, accessible from one's own desktop, that provides rented time on a large cluster of machines that work together in parallel as fast as, or faster than, a single powerful computer.

Unwanted cell phones, televisions, PCs (including desktops, laptops, portables and computer monitors), computer peripherals (including printers, scanners and fax machines), computer mouses and keyboards amounted to more than 1.9 million tons of solid municipal waste in the U.S.; of that, more than 1.5 million tons were dumped primarily into landfills, whereas the rest was recycled, the EPA says.

Figuring out better ways to input text on touch screens is important for more than just phones too, as they become common in other places like desktop computers, gaming devices and coffee tables.

The panel also recommended that NIH establish a new program aimed at organizing and curating massive biological databases, such as one on the mouse genome; set aside funds for researchers to hire biocomputing help; and support scientists assembling midsize computer networks that are more powerful than desktop machines but easier to manage than supercomputers.

My analysis that discovered the original 202 HARs would still be running today if I had implemented it on a single desktop computer rather than a 1,000 - node computer cluster.

Her using a smaller hand - held computer for emails and flirty messages is safer than a laptop or desktop computer at home.

You will need enough desktop computers (and screwdrivers) so that ideally students are working in groups no larger than four.

He also stresses the importance of taking out good warranties with tablets, as they are sealed units and therefore more difficult and costly to fix than a standard desktop computer.

For most primary school children the smaller size of the keyboard and closeness of the keyboard and monitor actually gives them a better posture than using a desktop computer setup for a tall child or adult.

Students who have laptops tend to spend longer logged on than students using desktop computers.

Dodge: Teachers can bring the Web (and thus the world) to where the kids are, rather than forcing them to move to a desktop computer or a lab.

Certainly iPads are cheaper than computers, desktop or laptop, and they are more mobile.

While only 14 per cent of schools now have an extensive requirement for desktop computers in the current year, the requirement for laptop computers more than doubles to 32 per cent.

Use of the app for these purposes acknowledges that learning — whether for academic credit, personal needs, or professional development — can occur any time and any place and via devices other than traditional desktop or laptop computers.

With more and more employees working remotely, and the number of employees working from the road, it's more important than ever that your training materials be accessible from more than just a desktop computer located on your business premises.

When a project will be accessed on mobile devices, we design it specifically for tablets or phones, rather than designing it for desktop computers and expecting it to be functional when it shrinks to a tiny screen.

So why can't smartphones — generally more affordable than tablets and desktop computers — also house people's digital bookshelves of both borrowed and owned books?

So far in 2013, Kobo's customers, either on smartphone, laptop, tablet, desktop computer, or eReading devices, have turned more than 1.3 - billion pages, logging more than 10 - million hours of reading time in the process.

Since the windows on my computer desktop is a lot wider than that of a cellphone screen or even a regular eBook device, the measurements are all off.

More consumers are using tablets and it probably hurts Microsoft more than it does Apple as consumers start neglecting their Windows desktop computers.

Yet e-book readers under age 30 are actually less likely than older e-book readers to own e-readers, and instead consume their e-books on a desktop or laptop computer (55 %) or cell phone (41 %).

It is always better to make sure than to make assumptions and extrapolate from a software implementation running on a desktop computer.

A responsive author webpage is more than just a «pretty face» on mobile devices and desktop computers.

Just because there isn't a «mouse» or a trackpad doesn't make the experience less valid than reading on a desktop computer.

During the last quarter Apple made more money from the iPad than it did from all its Mac computers (desktops and laptops) combined.

If the iPad developer community can create better than desktop class applications — much like Apple has with its own iWork applications — then the iPad could rapidly become all the home (or business) computer you need.

Tablets are without a doubt, one of the most outstanding device in the mobile industry as they provide the capability of a desktop computer although with less power, but in a size that's fairly more satisfying than those from smartphones.

For the millions of people who use their smartphones more than they do laptop or desktop computers, this smartphone - specific app about books is growing on the scene.

However, it's hard to make a credible argument that Tablets (or for that matter any of today's technology other than the Internet and things like desktop and laptop computers and phones) will be around in 10 - 15 years.

This might be because, as previously noted, owners of e-reading devices are less likely than all e-book readers to read their e-books on a desktop or laptop computer — and those who primarily read their e-books on a computer may not consider this arrangement to be as convenient for pre-bedtime reading as those who rely on their (more portable) dedicated e-reading devices.

28 % of respondents say their tablet is now their primary computer, while 43 % say they spend more time using their tablet than they do their desktop or laptop computer.