Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Purchasing Laptops And External Hard Drives

By Daniel Kilburn


Technology bloggers and experts alike have been uneqivocal with their proclamations. The desktop computer is dead. Long live the laptop! The old bulky forms of computers are nowadays most commonly found gathering dust in cupboards under stairs. A precious few offices still use them, with their bulky keyboards and large monitors, but the majority have moved over and asked their workers to use a laptop on their desk instead. Laptops and external hard drives have come into vogue, boosting the storage power of these small units.

This is because the size difference does not extend to portability. It also indicates how much data can be stored on a computer. A laptop is still, despite many great advances in shrinking down comparative technology, a cut down version of a big computer.

The gap has closed significantly. No longer can people claim that a laptop is a poor, underpowered cousin of the almighty desktop computer. That simply is not true anymore. There was a time when businessmen who travelled frequently would begrudgingly use their laptop to work on.

It would, though, be cast aside as soon as they got back to their office. This is no longer the case: the laptop is definitively the main computer for many people. This is because they have become more dependable, and the storage space has increased. Not only that, but it can be boosted through a removable device.

By using these USB ready data disks which are now as small as the palm of a hand, people can super power their laptop. They can be put alongside the computer in a storage bag and carried on a plane. It can hold terabytes of documents.

Laptops and external hard drives are the future. They provide a dependable, affordable and efficient solution to almost everyone's needs. The desktop is long dead and buried. The laptop has been crowned king.




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