Sentences with phrase «than a laptop at»

As Apple CEO Steve Jobs said Wednesday, smaller laptops known as netbooks are «not better than a laptop at anything - they're just cheaper.»

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I'm usually more able to see their laptops than you can at the front and I promise you — best will the world — they are sneaking a peek at their email, stock prices, web, etc..

At these travel hubs, in addition to laptop computers, all electronics larger than a cell phone — including e-readers and tablets — will be placed in a separate bin for additional screening.

When customers are opting to spend twice as much to buy an Apple laptop than an HP, it's time to massively shake up that business or get out of it entirely (by the way, I'm not sure if anybody has pointed out the obvious yet, but it sure seems like Microsoft Windows is at the core of HP's problem in this area).

It's much easier to touch up a PowerPoint presentation from your laptop at home than to try to work in complicated spreadsheets on detailed models.

Light - based or photonic computers have the potential to run at least 20 times faster than your laptop, not to mention the fact that they won't produce heat or suck up energy like existing devices.

For example, imagine you're on your laptop shopping for a shirt at Target.com but then something comes up and you turn off your browser rather than completing your order.

The price was better than the other places I had checked and so far I've had no issues with the laptop (I'm writing this article on it at the moment).

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.

Your teen prefers to sleep till 11:00 am, is crabby when she wakes up, would rather talk to the dog than you, and isolates herself for hours at a time in her room, glued to her laptop.

Researchers at Princeton report that students who took notes on laptops performed worse on conceptual questions than students who...

What an amazing giveaway I'd love to win an ipad mini because it would be amazing to take to uni rather than my big heavy laptop, and at home it would be fab for the boys because they could use it to skype to their grandparents in the US, as well as all the great apps for kids xxx

The novelty can actually cause a couple to spend those precious baby - free moments together rather than on laptops at opposite ends of the house.

And while cell phones are still much more common than computers in the Third World, the tubes are coming: I got my first look this weekend at the one - laptop - per - child XO machine, courtesy of my father, who's taken advantage of the give - one / get - one holiday offer (my brother and his IBM - Linux - guru wife have done the same).

Meanwhile, sources said that Travis, 25, abandoned three suitcases at The Plaza when she left the country, and that the bags held more than 70 items, including vibrators, condoms, body lotion, jewelry, clothing, shoes, a laptop computer and at least two cellphones.

He said: «I see nothing at all in the search warrant application that would give rise to probable cause, nothing that would make anyone suspect that there was anything on the laptop beyond what the FBI had already searched and determined not to be evidence of a crime, nothing to suggest that there would be anything other than routine correspondence between Secretary Clinton and her longtime aide Huma Abedin.»

White remains cautious, though, and would like to see more work looking at whether some of those 10 watts might be coming from the piezoelectric properties of the tantalum oxide, rather than from its interaction with the droplets.Ten watts would be enough to power a mobile phone, a military radio, a GPS device, even a small laptop, Krupenkin says.

This means that a 1 - kilogram computer, equivalent to a small laptop, can perform at most 5 * 1050 operations per second — that's a whopping 36 orders of magnitude more than the computer on which I'm typing these words.

As Danny peers at the laptop, signals stream from more than 60 ultrathin electrodes — each sensitive enough to detect the murmuring of a single cell — and into the cables that emerge from his head.

With Google, Internet Movie Database and Wikipedia at our beck and call via smart phones, tablets and laptops, the once essential function of committing facts to memory has become little more than a flashback to flash cards.

Page, who like Google co-founder and technology president Sergey Brin, arrived at the event wearing roller blades, added that, although the Internet still is not as robust on a mobile phone as it is on a PC, the G1 is an attempt to deliver a useful version of the mobile Web, particularly because people are more likely to be carrying their cell phone than their laptop, particularly when doing things like rollerblading.

A session on your laptop in your apartment is no less beneficial than a $ 22 dollar one at studio, and there are always free or donation - based community yoga classes being offered, so check your local paper regularly.

Our team of experienced technicians and hardware engineers can repair, service and upgrade laptop & desktop both.We can have your laptop / desktop problems fixed in less than a day and at times while you wait depends on condition.

Ahhh looks can be greatly deceiving, Stephanie I can assure you that I'm the epitome of shyness, I'm an extreme introvert who'd like nothing better than hide under my rock and type away at my laptop and watch crime shoes LOL

So oftentimes, it's a whole lot less glam (at least for me) than what a lot of folks think «fulltime blogging» is — I just hibernate in a room with my laptop 24/7.

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

If you are in the standard e-dating demographic your last date was likely to have sprung from a meeting at a bar rather than emerging from a softly lit laptop screen.

I logged on to my laptop to find an email from the Mature Free and Single website showing a page of new members, I glanced at the photographs and one caught my eye, it was a guy older than myself who lived about 20 miles away.

For instance, just because Lucy can suddenly read webpages at a faster speed than you and I doesn't mean she can also make wi - fi better and increase the speed and capacity of a laptop's internal processors.

Rather than playing upon one of the overpowered rigs that typically adorn E3 demos (I'm looking at you, Threadripper), the four of us played with a number of Alienware laptops.

More than one - fourth of the 2,500 largest U.S. school districts have at least one full grade of students with their own laptops — a figure expected to rise 50 percent in three years.

There are also articles about obstacles to greater progress: a study reveals that teacher expectations impact students» likelihood of completing college and are often lower for black students than for their white counterparts, even after accounting for students» academic and demographic backgrounds; and a look at how allowing laptop use in the classroom actually distracts from student learning.

Over the past eight years, my survey course on Politics and Education in the U.S. at the Harvard Graduate School of Education came to resemble an Internet café more than a classroom, with a laptop perched on nearly every student's desk.

She describes research conducted at West Point that found that students taking an introductory economics class where laptops or tablets were allowed performed substantially worse than students in classes where electronics were not allowed.

Administrators told the board they plan to spend about $ 50,000 more than is budgeted on specific efforts at Sylvanie Williams — more social work support and therapy, to help students whose personal circumstances are keeping them from learning, more substitute teachers and stipends for current teachers who are spending additional hours tutoring the students, more laptops for some of the computer - based learning programs, and money for busing students to weekend tutoring sessions.

Maine gives laptops to every middle school student in the state, at a cost of less than one percent of the state education budget, according to Jeff Mao, learning technology policy director for the state.

The Fire HD 8's run time of 10 hours and 58 minutes on the Laptop Mag battery test (continuous web surfing at 150 nits) is more than 4 hours longer than the time from the Fire 7 (6:53) and more than 2 hours long than the time from the HD 10 (9:04).

Tablets and Smartphones tend to be held at angles that pick up more of the surrounding ambient light than the more vertically oriented screens in laptops, desktops, and HDTVs.

I am simplifying this part of the assessment in order to not get entangled in the minutia (the value of cheap laptops at less than $ 499 in comparison to their capability compared to laptops that are only a skosh more and their reduced portability in comparison to a tablet).

She's an avid consumer of the tech gear she's been writing about since she started at PC Magazine back when laptops were more luggable than portable, Windows 3.1 was current, and multimedia CD - ROMs were all the rage.

Nothing is better at doing everything while remaining somewhat portable than a laptop.

Often, I can't access it through more than one computer — yet I use 3 networked laptops at home, an ebook reader, PDA, PC and laptop at work.

The company is renowned for their computer motherboards and graphics cards, in addition to making decent laptops and notebooks at a more affordable price than the likes of Sony and Apple — with a performance that's on par too.

However, the biggest surprise that the new PlayBook includes is the battery that it is touted to comes with, which at 5300 mAh is better than what even some top end laptops or notebooks PCs can't boast of though unfortunately, there is no word as to how long the PlayBook can sustain operations on a single charge.

True, Microsoft might have dreamt much more than was conducive as what they were looking at is a device that would perhaps be a replacement of the laptops though eventually what Apple has come out with is a device that scores heavily on practicality and mobility that has gone on to win people's heart and mind.

«While just over 15 % of the population have at least one e-reader in their household, it is also possible to read eBooks on one's tablet, smart phone or laptop, making them accessible to a much broader audience than one might think.

The slate lasted 7 hours and 35 minutes on the Laptop Mag Battery Test (constant Web surfing at 150 nits of brightness), which is better than the Fire Kids (6:42) and the Xtreme 2 (5:23), but shorter than the average tablet (9:05).

Microsoft would like to promote the Surface not only as a tablet that is better than the competition, but can also as a replacement for a laptop, to some extent at least.

those numbers are at least 20 percent faster than comparable laptops with an intel core duo processor, such as the asus w2jb.

The Encore played a full - volume tone at 79 decibels on the LAPTOP Audio Test, which is louder than the Miix 2 (72 decibels) but fell short of the Venue 8 Pro (88 decibels) and 80 - decibel category average.