Sentences with phrase «years than laptop»

Could smartphones for education be more prevalent in high schools in the next few years than laptop programs?

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Just more than six years ago, Claymore Investments was a one - man show that Som Seif, 35, was running from home off his laptop.

And I was completely happy with my Windows laptop (believe it or not, I'm a big Windows 10 fan) until the hardware broke, less than two years after I spent a thousand bucks on it.

Women purchase more tablets, laptops and smartphones; download more music, movies and games; make the majority of household technology purchasing decisions; and utilize devices and services, from games to social media, more than their male counterparts, according to research over the past two years from the market intelligence firm Park Associates.

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.

Only 54 % of teens in households making less than $ 35,000 a year have a laptop in their home versus 92 % of teens in households making $ 100,000 a year or more.

The team needed some 40,000 processor hours or just about four weeks for their data analysis — on a normal laptop the calculations would have taken more than 20 years.

But for more than ten years now journalists have been writing articles on planes, using laptops such as the Tandy 100, which came out in 1983.

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.

Because the students had been using their laptops for less than two years, it might have been too soon to see noticeable gains in areas that are covered by standardized tests.

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.

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.

GCDS was among the first schools to introduce a 1:1 laptop program more than 18 years ago.

If anyone needed further proof of tablet devices being more in vogue than the traditional PCs, here it is: theBBC iPlayer app has seen almost a million downloads (941,000 to be precise) on tablet devices from Dec 21 til the end of the year, surpassing the traditional desktops and laptops for the first time ever.

It is still exciting to see how fast the technology is advancing, much more so than laptops have over the past couple years.

It also lasted more than 12 hours on the Laptop Mag Battery Test, beating last year's model by more than 2 hours.

«To qualify, your old Laptop or Netbook must be undamaged (reasonable wear and tear accepted), less than 4 years old, working and complete with functioning battery, and power supply.»

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

I have been reading books on my laptop / PC since I discovered gutenberg.net 12 years back — and I cant read for more than 2 hours at a stretch without getting an eyesore or a headache.

«Mobility products have shorter lifecycles than laptops and desktops», the spokesperson said, but we knew that and Dell definitely knew that some two years ago when they entered the smartphone game.

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.

If a renter bought a laptop five years ago for $ 2,000 and it is stolen today, the insurer will pay out significantly less than the purchase price based on ACV.

I spent a lot of times on my laptop learning about dividend growth investing, reading the blogs of my fellow bloggers, building a 35k portfolio yielding more than 1000 $ of yearly dividend income, I went through a restructuring and ended up keeping my job, my wife was pregnant but had a miscarriage... phew... So many things can happen in a year!

So if you bought a laptop five years ago for $ 1,000 and it gets stolen, you'd receive considerably less than that today.

The Wi - Fi - enabled printer has been with us for years, but there is more to it than printing across your internal network from your laptop, tablet, or phone.

There will always be students who do not have access to computers, but that number is dwindling; and it might well be cheaper for the student to acquire a $ 400 laptop than to pay the cost of a year's course kits.

You'll spend more for this kind, but it recognizes that replacing a fried laptop will cost more now than it did a couple years ago.

One can imagine that it would be cheaper to buy a laptop today than it was 10 years ago, so that is what your renters insurance policy in Akron will consider when you choose this option.

That's given rise to a new breed of budget gaming laptops that appear, at a glance, far more capable than those available just a few years ago.

Toshiba offers a three - year warranty on the Z20T, which is much better than the standard warranty on most laptops.

Windows is still relevant in the consumer market, insofar as laptops and PCs are still relevant (and 2 - in - 1s for good measure)-- which, contrary to what some people like to claim, they still very much are, just much less so than ten years ago or even five.

The computers were leased, as is common for many schools to do with programs like this, so it was much cheaper than buying hundreds of laptops every few years but, when I look at the program honestly, they could have just gotten Chromebooks.

We've tested more than a hundred laptops over the course of a year to find the best laptops for most people.

Accordingly, Asus» laptop transferred 4.97 GB of files at a rate of only 33.3 MBps, just a tad less than what the Aspire E 15 (36.61 MBps) and its 1 TB hard drive achieved and a tad more than last year's model completed (30.1 MBps).

He's been building, upgrading, and fixing PCs for more than 15 years, and five of those years were spent in IT departments buying and repairing business laptops and desktops as well as helping people buy the best tech for their needs.

We've spent more than 500 hours researching and testing hundreds of laptops — from portable ultrabooks to Chromebooks to gaming laptops to 15 - inch laptops for creative professionals and beyond — in the past few years.

A regular ultrabook, especially one that has been future - proofed with at least 16 GB of memory and a 512 GB SSD, is more than enough computer to last you for a few years, and those systems are thinner and lighter than almost any business laptop.

Getting a business laptop with all the features you need could cost more than $ 1,000, but you'll be rewarded with a computer that makes you or your employees more productive for years to come.

There have been plenty of advances in recent years making laptops a seamless component of your learning experience rather than distracting you from it.

In the midst of the tablet decline, many consumers are realizing they still need a traditional laptop or desktop and are spending more on such computers than in many years past.

Alas, Huawei did unveil a couple of exciting products at this year's show, and the first one is a compact laptop that looks like a MacBook Air, packs a Pro punch, and features an all - screen display that's better than Dell's edgeless laptops.

We've already seen solid Chrome OS - powered laptops earlier this year, and what better place than IFA to unveil even more?

In fact, last year, Chromebooks have sold more than iPads in schools, as the former are cheaper and offer a more practical laptop for students.

$ 1,350 sounds like a lot of money to pay for a laptop originally released three years ago, but it's actually 250 bucks lower than the list price of this particular 13 - inch MacBook Air configuration.

Everything is better, and your machine will probably last longer and hold up better than a cheap Windows laptop you have to replace every year or two.

When it comes to the company's laptops, recent years have seen Apple focus on the MacBook Pro and 12 - inch MacBook; other than incremental spec updates, we've seen very little news regarding its 13 - inch MacBook Air.

The ThinkPad X60 is a laptop from 2006, even two years older than the 2008 - vintage ThinkPad X200.

Performance aside, this is the same laptop Microsoft released more than a year ago.

The company is also launching ARM chip - powered Windows laptops from PC makers this year - let's hope it's better than the last ARM - powered Windows effort.

The iPad Pro 9.7 ends up being more than an a simple specs bump a year and a half after the iPad Air 2, but it's not quite the laptop replacement that Apple poses it to be.