Talk: Laptop
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Why on earth can I edit this?
how did the laptop come about? who made the first laptop?
We are not talking about user-level repairs here. Nearly all laptop faults that are not related to peripheral devices (keyboard, CD drive, for example) require mainboard replacement - in other words, cost so much that they are simply non-economic.
As for performance, there is always a big hit. Take two machines of identical spec: 2000MHz CPU, 512MB RAM, 60GB HDD, Branx X vieo chip (by way of example). The laptop has been tuned for low power consumption and small size, where the desktop is tuned for performance - and this always costs speed. Laptop hard drives (even expensive "high performance" ones) lag way behind desktop drives, Laptops often use slower RAM and lower-clocked mainboards, their video chips are power-optimised and almost never use dedicated video RAM. Laptop CPUs (even those that are of identical spec - a Pentium 4 2800, let's say) have relatively poor cooling and clock-throttle themselves back far more readily than a desktop CPU does. And so on. Tannin 12:01, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
