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Definition: Laptop |
LaptopNoun1. A portable computer small enough to use in your lap. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Public Administration | See NL. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
a typical laptop computerA laptop computer (also known as notebook computer) is a small mobile personal computer, usually weighing around from 1 to 3 kilograms (2 to 7 pounds). Notebooks smaller than a DIN A4 sheet of paper and weighing around 1 kg are termed subnotebook and those weighing around 5 kg a desknote (desktop/notebook). They essentially contain the same components as their desktop counterparts, however miniaturized and optimized for mobile applications.
Early predecessors of the laptop include the Osborne 1 and the Macintosh portable, both of which weighed in the 20-30 pound range but offered a non-stationary computing platform. The cost of weight, and resulting value to a consumer, is mostly low in desktop computers and high in cheap laptops. Laptops are capable of much of what their desktop counterparts can do. They have many of the same components, but they are miniaturized. Laptops usually have LCDs for their screens and smaller SODIMM (Small Outline DIMM) chips for their RAM. They often have a touchpad or a pointing stick, but an additional computer mouse or keyboard can be attached.
Laptops are typically popular among students, travellers, and telecommuters. They replace a full, traditional computer. The cheapest models cost less than $1000. Most modern laptops use an active matrix display, with screen sizes 14.1" or larger. Many have PCMCIA expansion bays for expansion cards. Internal hard disks are smaller 2.5" compared to desktop computers which have 3.5". Display adapters and sound cards are integrated. Laptop batteries usually last about 2-5 hours. Docking stations are used for expanding connectors and quickly connecting many components to the laptop. The lightest notebooks weigh 1.5 kg and the heftiest 3 kg. Modern laptops can handle games but can be limited by their display adapter type.
In the mobile employment Notebooks NiMH or LiIon batteries are used for the power supply and reach running times between 2 and 6 hours, depending upon current consumption of the equipment and the manufacture of the battery.
With progress in microelectronics, notebooks are now comparable with desktop PCs, have opposite this even some advantages, so that the manufacturers introduced a new device class, the desknotes as mentioned above. This form of notebook is particularly adapted for this purpose, by doing without currentsaving technology for mobile use, high-capacitative batteries and more efficient components from the desktop range built into somewhat larger housings. The resulting products can be used like a laptop, one must however realize itself that they were not built especially for it. A job rotation is substantially simpler than with a standard PC, and they use less room on adesk. Some desknotes do not use batteries at all and are used solely for portability and not mobile use.
Popular laptops
- Acer - TravelMate and Aspire
- Alienware
- Apple Computer - iBook and PowerBook
- ASUS
- Clevo
- Compaq
- Dell Inspiron and Dell Latitude
- ECS
- Fujitsu - Lifebook
- Hewlett Packard - HP Pavilion and HP Omnibook
- IBM - ThinkPad
- NEC
- Sony VAIO
- Toshiba - Dynabook
See also
- Desknote
- PDA
- Tablet PC
- Sub-notebook
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Laptop."
Synonym: LaptopSynonym: laptop computer (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Laptop |
| Specialty definitions using "laptop": Advanced Power Management, Automated Listing and Mapping Instrument ♦ chiclet keyboard, computer assisted personal interview ♦ DIN-8, docking station ♦ Group Quarters Automated Instrument for Listing ♦ nipple mouse, nomadic desk ♦ PowerOpen Environment ♦ Sinclair Research ♦ touchpad ♦ Windows 2000. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Laptop" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (laptop). |
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| "Laptop Computer" by Stacy Taylor Commentary: "Laptop I took a pic of for a brochure I'm working on." | "Laptop Keyboard" by Richard Lau Commentary: "A close up of a Sony Vaio Z Series laptop keyboard." |
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Business | The laptop is the leader in this category. (references) | |
This system also supports data communications over the cellular networks when connected to a PC or laptop computer that has the Nokia Data Suite or a PC card installed. (references) | ||
Laptop and notebook PC’s are expected to lead domestic PC shipments in 2000 as major suppliers continually introduce new, competitively priced, high performance models. (references) | ||
Economic History | Russia | The main trends of the last year were growth of laptop and server market, a significant decline in PC sales prices, expansion of distributors to the regions and a formation of a new sector for PDA. (references) |
Human Rights | Guatemala | On October 2, the laptop of Matilde Gonzalez Izas, researcher for the Association for the Advancement of Social Sciences (AVANSCO), was stolen from her home, while nothing else was touched. (references) |
Trade | Cote D'ivoire | Many business travelers bring laptop computers into the country without difficulty. (references) |
Travel | Qatar | Laptop Computers and Software: Allowed entry for personal use. (references) |
Japan | There is no restriction for temporary entry of laptop computers and software for personal use. (references) | |
Vietnam | There are no known regulations governing the temporary entry of laptop computers into Vietnam. (references) | |
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| "Laptop" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 84.62% of the time. "Laptop" is used about 52 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 84.62% | 44 | 51,500 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 5.77% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.77% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.92% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 1.92% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 52 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "laptop": laptop computer. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
laptop | 11,608 | laptop rental | 375 |
laptop computer | 3,408 | laptop accessory | 364 |
used laptop | 2,107 | laptop part | 358 |
cheap laptop | 1,325 | free laptop | 357 |
refurbished laptop | 1,278 | hp laptop | 305 |
laptop battery | 1,222 | laptop gps | 280 |
laptop memory | 1,084 | discount laptop | 268 |
laptop computer sale | 1,078 | laptop wholesale | 258 |
dell laptop | 1,051 | best laptop | 246 |
toshiba laptop | 945 | apple laptop | 233 |
sony laptop | 806 | laptop notebook | 208 |
laptop case | 622 | sony vaio laptop | 200 |
laptop for sale | 576 | dell laptop computer | 182 |
laptop hard drive | 574 | laptop repair | 178 |
laptop review | 534 | sony laptop computer | 175 |
laptop backpack | 499 | cheap laptop computer | 173 |
used laptop computer | 424 | laptop carrying case | 168 |
compaq laptop | 410 | laptop desk | 166 |
ibm laptop | 402 | refurbished laptop computer | 153 |
laptop bag | 397 | gateway laptop | 146 |
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| Language | Translations for "laptop"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kompjuter portativ. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | наколенен, портативен компютър. (various references) | |
Chinese | 膝上电脑, 膝上型電腦 , 膝上型 . (various references) | |
Dutch | laptop (laptop computer), schootcomputer (laptop computer). (various references) | |
Finnish | sylimikro (laptop computer). (various references) | |
French | portatif. (various references) | |
German | laptop, Schosscomputer (laptop computer). (various references) | |
Greek | φορητός υπολογιστής (portable, portable computer). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מעל הברכים. (various references) | |
Hungarian | hordozható számítógép. (various references) | |
Italian | LAPTOP (laptop computer), computer da tenere in grembo,del formato di un blocco di appunti (laptop computer). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ラタン家具 (lacquer, ladder, lap, lap time, LASH, latch, latex, Latin, Latin America, Latin-American, latitude, lucky, lucky seventh, lucky zone, rack, rap, Rassa, rat, rattan furniture, ruck, rudder, ruffle, rush, rush hour, rush print, Russell, wrap, wrap-around, wraparound skirt, wrapping). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ラップトップ . (various references) | |
Korean | 휴대용 퍼스널 컴퓨터. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aptoplay.(various references) | |
Russian | небольшой портативный компьютер, наколенный, лаптоп. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vrsta kompjutera. (various references) | |
Spanish | ordenador portátil (notebook, notebook computer). (various references) | |
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Words beginning with "laptop": laptops. (additional references) | |
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"Laptop" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: lapo, latop, Latow, lepto, liphool. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "laptop" (pronounced la"ptÄ'p) |
| 3 | -t Ä' p | backstop, blacktop, countertop, desktop, hilltop, mountaintop, rolltop, rooftop, shortstop, tabletop. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-o-p-p-t" | |
-2 letters: alto, atop, lota, opal, palp, plat, plop, plot, tola. | |
-3 letters: alp, alt, apt, lap, lat, lop, lot, oat, opt, pal, pap, pat, pol, pop, pot, tao, tap, top. | |
-4 letters: al, at, la, lo, op, pa, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-o-p-p-t" | |
+1 letter: laptops. | |
+2 letters: lamppost, oppilant, oppilate, palpator, populate. | |
+3 letters: captopril, haplotype, lampposts, oppilated, oppilates, palpation, palpators, papillote, photoplay, popliteal, populated, populates, stoppable. | |
+4 letters: apoplectic, applicator, appositely, captoprils, depopulate, haplotypes, oppilating, palpations, papillotes, pentaploid, photoplays, popularity, populating, population, propellant, proplastid, protoplasm, protoplast, prototypal, repopulate. | |
+5 letters: antipopular, apocalyptic, apophyllite, apostleship, appellation, application, applicators, applicatory, blacktopped, copperplate, depopulated, depopulates, hypoplastic, lepidoptera, leptospiral, malapropist, outpopulate, palpitation, pantropical, papillomata, pentaploids, pentaploidy, plecopteran, populations, postnuptial, postponable, propellants, prophetical, proplastids, protoplanet, protoplasms, protoplasts, repopulated, repopulates, spheroplast, supportable, unstoppable, unstoppably. | |
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