Sentences with phrase «than a laptop computer»

The answer has come in the form of a satellite terminal that is smaller than a laptop computer.

Tablet computers will provide a better overall experience than laptop computers for many tasks, eventually replacing them or at least merging most of its technology with them.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

As for the «awesome technologies» that sprang from Jobs's Apple laboratories, would not an impartial observer describe the iPad as just a small laptop computer without a keyboard and a cover rather than an innovation on par with electricity, vaccination or hybrid crops?

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.

Last but not least is the fact that this computer comes with a stylus, which is more than most other laptops in this price range can boast.

Furthermore, 82 percent said that they access the Internet with laptop computers and 47 percent with tablets (up from 26 percent in 2012), both significantly higher than older generations.

Customers require nothing more than a computer, laptop or smartphone with an internet connection to enjoy the benefits of LiveDemo.

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.

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.

I've never owned a computer other than HP and my experience has been great so far, would love to try out this touchsmart laptop!.

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.

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.

He also showed that a 1 kg computer can store up to 1031 bits, which is about one billion billion times better than my laptop.

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.

And instead of a storage device, the images (text or pictures) could be permanently displayed on these layers even with the power off, so that a document hundreds of pages long could be stored on the display screens themselves, and portable enough to carry around, no bigger than a small laptop computer.

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

If the fiendishly clever horror sleeper Unfriended is about anything more than its own ingenious construction — the way it seems to credibly unfold, in real time and with great realism, within the frame lines of a laptop computer — it's about how the internet has allowed people to indulge their worst impulses with anonymity and impunity, behaving ways on the web that they never would in «real» life.

Contact: Susan Payne Carter: 845-938-0856, [email protected], United States Military Academy Jackie Kerstetter: 814-440-2299, [email protected], Education Next Computer use in college classes reduces final - exam grades New study finds that technology can be more of a distraction than a learning tool August 17, 2017 — The vast majority of college students carry laptops or tablets from class to class.

Courtenay Harris and Leon Straker's «Survey of physical ergonomics issues associated with school childrens» use of laptop computers» found that students in schools with mandatory laptop programs spent on average more than three hours per day on the computer.

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

But consider these three parallel and seemingly independent phenomena: More than 98 percent of all children and young people play video games; the time devoted to social networking, whether on Facebook or newer platforms, has grown explosively; and the favored means of both information - seeking and communications, especially among young people, is no longer via computers or laptops but smartphones.

The imminent release of smartbooks — devices that look and act like laptops, but are scaled - up cellphones rather than scaled - down computers — will further empower this emerging infrastructure.

Whether via laptop computers, advanced mobile devices, Wi - Fi or enhanced 4G wireless networks, we are more connected than ever to everyone we know.

In general, students should learn to safeguard their notebook computer by carrying it in a non-descript backpack rather than a tell - tale laptop bag, always creating a password for logging into the computer, and ensuring that it is never left in plain sight unattended.

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.

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.

Smartphones, televisions, laptop computers, gaming consoles and e-readers are all on gift lists this holiday season, with more than half of consumers anticipate spending between $ 250 and $ 500 on tech products.

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.

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.

Tablet sales had been gaining momentum through 2014 but failed to live up to many forecasts as consumers shifted to slim laptop computers and kept their tablets longer than expected before replacing them.

The fanless design also means the Oak Trail chips can go in thinner laptop and tablet computers than current Intel chips.

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 %).

Two interesting facts that came from the demographics data of the survey showed that more students are using PC laptops (71 %) than Mac brand devices (20 %), and that more students do their studying on a smartphone (36 %) than a tablet or computer (22 %).

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

Really, it's a fabulous display technology: When I took my $ 25 Pandigital and my $ 400 Toshiba laptop outdoors, the Pandigital display was gorgeous, even better than indoors, but the laptop computer display was almost unreadable, even in the shade.

Like the iPhone, the iPad will be a much more natural way to read books than trying to read on an upright computer monitor or a laptop.

Meanwhile, shipments of «detachables,» computers with screens that can dock into keyboards to be used laptop style or undocked and used tablet style, priced less than $ 200 surged, IDC analysts said.

All of these tablets perform better than most HDTVs, computer monitors, and laptop displays from just a few years ago.

It's easier to lug around than any netbook, laptop, or tablet computer or most hardcover bestsellers.

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.

I think it's pretty self - evident that it can win that comparison, but Plastic Logic didn't devote much time to another question: Why is the Que better than another device that 100 % of its target market owns, uses, and carries — a laptop computer?