Ultraportables systems are so light and small that you'll hardly knowthey're in your laptop bag. The smallest ultraportable is sometimes referred toas sub-notebooks having 10-inch displays and confined keyboards.
? 2kg or less
? Less than 20mm thick
? Little displays (12inches or smaller)
? Slower mobileprocessors, less memory, and smaller hard drives
? No internal CD, CD-RW,or DVD drives
? Ports are very less
? Microsoft Windows XPHome or Professional
Thin-and-light:
A thin-and-light offers the best balance between portability,performance, and features, particularly for business travelers.
? 1.8 to 3kg
? Less than 40mm thick
? Medium sized displays(12 to 14 inches)
? Powerful mobileprocessors, lots of memory, spacious hard drives
? One exchangeableinternal CD, CD-RW, or DVD drive
? All standard ports
? Microsoft Windows XPHome or Professional
Mainstreamor value notebooks:
This notebooks bring the performance and features that most users needwithout all the stuff they don't. Though these devices are a bit lighter andsmaller than desktop replacements, mainstream notebooks still aren't suitablefor business travelers.
? 2.5 to 4kg
? Approximately 40mm thick
? 14-inch display orlarger
? Value mobile processors,base amounts of memory, and small hard drives
? Two fixed orexchangeable internal drives for floppy, CD, CD-RW, or DVD drives
? All standard ports
? Microsoft Windows XPHome
Desktopreplacement:
A desktop replacement is prepared for just about anything, but it rarelyever ventures off the compressed path. Because of its big and heavy size theyare uncommon to traveler. But these give the best performance and the mostfeatures available in a notebook.
? 3.5kg or more
? Over 40mm thick
? 15-inch to 17-inchdisplays
? Fastest mobile or desktopprocessors, most memory, and largest harddrives
? Two exchangeableinternal drives for floppy, CD, CD-RW, DVD, or DVD recordable
? All standard ports andmultimedia connectors
? Microsoft Windows XPHome or Professional
Tablet PC:
They are available in two basic designs: tablets that look liketraditional notebooks, but with displays that turn round and fold flat facingoutwards, and slates that have no attached keyboard
? Less than 2kg (someslates weigh as little as 1kg)
? Most of them arecompact.
? 12-inch digitizeddisplays
? Same mobile processors,memory, and hard drives found in ultraportables