2. Laptop
• A Laptop computer is a portable personal
computer with a clamshell form factor, suitable
for mobile use. laptop has most of the same
components as a desktop computer, including
a display, a keyboard, a pointing device such as
a touchpad (also known as a track pad) and/or
a point stick, and speakers into a single unit. A
laptop is powered by main electricity via an AC
Adapter and can be used away from an outlet
using a rechargeable battery
5. Laptop Case
A laptop case is made up of three parts
• The display
• The case frame
• The case
6. Laptop Processor
To help laptop with heat problem , laptop
processor are engineered with the following
features
Streamlined connection to the motherboard
Lower voltage and clock speed
Active sleep and slowdown mode
11. Hard drive
• Laptops don’t have the room for the full sized
3 ½ hard drives that desktop computers use.
• Instead , they use a hard drive with a 2 ½
form factor factor.
• These drives share the same controller as
desktop computers, however, they use small
connectors.
12. Optical drive
• Optical drives on laptops are necessary
than their counter parts as well.
• Note that the laptop drive is very small, but
has all the functionality of a desktop unit.
14. Keyboard
• Laptop keyboards are built into lower
portion of the clamshell.
• They can be removed easily to access
peripherals.
• They have reduced set of keys as
compared to desktop computers.
15. Track Ball
• A track ball is essentially the same as a
mouse turned upside down.
• Cheap
• Track ball picks up dirt and oil form from
operators finger.
16. Touchpad
• A device that has a pad of touch sensitive
material.
• Finger motions
17. Point stick
• IBM with the Think-Pad
series of laptop.
• It uses a small rubbertipped sticks.
19. Express Cards
• Express cards was launched by PCMCIA
• It supported USB and PCI express connectivity for
portable computers.
• Express cards adapters are 75 mm in length.
20. Mini PCI
• Mini peripheral component interconnect.
• It is a smaller version of PCI and is designed
primarily for laptops.
• It is functionally identical to the PCI version 2.2.
• It’s a 32 bit, 33 Mhz bus with 3.3 V powered
21. Mini PCIe
• They are basically Express cards without
the external cover.
• They are 52-pin edge connector
