Using Portable Laptops

Series Summary

A great trend of modern society, particularly with technology, is to take the exponential availability of data and information and the largeness of the connected world and put them through an increasingly smaller and more compact medium. This inverse progression of software and hardware is most blatantly seen in the invention of the laptop computer. Portable, powerful, and user-friendly, the laptop is a microcosm of the technological goals and paradigms of modern Western society...and they are a great gift for new college students!

In this free video series, learn from computer specialist Don Procunier how to use laptop computers. Explore the difference between laptops and desktops, the advantages and disadvantages of buying a laptop, how to buy a laptop, how USB ports work on laptops, different features on laptops, and different accessories for laptop computers. Whether you are a new college student, or a traveling business man, this video series from Expert Village will give you the tools youo need to make the right choice with laptops!

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village.com my name is Don from Friendly Computers and I'm here to talk to you today about laptops. Ever since the advent of the personal computer into the home and desktop there's been a consistence struggle to make them smaller, faster and more portable. With portability comes a lot challenges, one is making the thing powerful enough to make it usable but in a smaller package. In the older days when they came up with a portable computer it was almost as big as todays desktops. Well things have changed a lot since then and in fact, we even have desktop computer just as small as this just barely larger as a CD. But there not portable, so that's where the laptop comes in. Laptop comes in a variety of sizes and capacities and they give you the ability to do your computing where ever you are and take it on the road with you. With features such as USB ports, CD and DVD burners, large and small screens, there's a laptop to fit almost every need in almost requirement and budget."