Laptop War
Laptop War
Laptops Are To Surpass Desktops In A Few Years
A few years ago the IDC came out with an analytical report stating that the notebook would overtake the desktop by 2011. Now that we’re getting close to that predicted date some analysts believe that time may come sooner rather than later. Last year annual shipments for desktops grew by 2% whereas portable devices grew by 26.3%.
Companies such as Dell are currently shifting their focus toward producing more laptop batteries and fewer desktops. In April of 2008 Dell announced the closing of their Austin, Texas plant and the lay-off of numerous employees. These changes are to save the company billions. In turn Dell hopes to use that money toward expanding their line of notebooks.
Other PC manufacturers are expected to turn their focus on the notebook market as well. Part of this shift is due to technological advancements. As new advancements are made in the notebook industry, the differences between a notebook and desktop are decreasing. With the closing of this gap consumers are more inclined to purchase a notebook.
Portability plays another major factor in this shift. With notebooks consumers can take their work anywhere. A person is no longer limited to working in one location. Many people use notebooks while on flights, trains, or to get extra work done at home. Additionally, coffee shops, hotels, and libraries have made taking your work anywhere easier by offering wireless services.
Lower prices have also made notebooks more accessible. Major discount retailers such as Wal-Mart have struck deals with manufacturers like Dell to bring better deals on notebooks to the consumer. In addition, stronger competition between manufacturers encourages pricing wars that benefit the consumer.
Karine Paoli from the IDC stated the “IDC expects 2008 to be another buoyant year for the EMEA PC market. Notebooks will remain a key driver across the region, with total PC sales in EMEA expected to cross the 100 million mark.”
Despite the notebook accessory taking a larger piece of the PC market, the desktop isn’t going out of consumer hands. Currently, desktops can store larger files. On a desktop computer you can add several hard drives to your computer. notebooks lack this advantage because a person would have to carry around several large accessories in order to store large files or programs. Carrying too many items in your notebook case defeats the purpose of having a portable and compact notebook. However, with newer technologies coming to the market, it won’t be long before the notebook’s capabilities will meet that of a desktop. Once this happens, it should be little to no surprise that desktops may become obsolete.
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I want to play all or any of the Total war computer games on my laptop. Could i?
My laptop is a 1.5 giga hertz pentium dual core processor. And has a nivida(sp?) 8500 graphics card. and 2gb of ram. Could i play any of the total war games on my laptop? and if so which ones? Finally could you just tell me the recommended specs for a laptop to play those games?
The graphics card is enough, as is the RAM… but the Total War series (Empire, Napoleon, etc) requires at least a 2.3ghz core… so.. Nope. You can’t play any of the Total War games on your laptops.
And… Since you have the Ram and Video card, and I just told you the Processor needed, you should be good to go in finding a laptop that meets or exceeds those requirements.
But I’ll spell it out for you. (Rome: Total War requires quite a bit less)
Operating System
: Windows XP 32(service pack 2), Windows Vista 32 OS.
Processor: 2.3 GHz Single Core Intel or AMD equivalent processor.
System Memory: 1GB RAM (XP) 2GB RAM (Vista).
Graphics Card
: 256MB DirectX 9.0c compatible video card (shader 2.0 or higher).
Sound Card: Directx9.0c compatible sound card.
Windows compatible mouse & keyboard.
15 GB free uncompressed hard drive space.
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