Refurbished or reconditioned laptops are forms of computer hardware packed in good condition, with good performance, advantages and portability with cheap and affordable pricing. Not to mention, warranty and technical support service is given by the vendors especially if the units are branded.
Vendors usually perform thorough tests and repairs on refurbished laptops before offered. Before released from the factory or quality control, each laptop should be cleaned and bundled with warranty. This is how a refurbished laptop is being prepared for its future buyers/users. Buying brand new and high-end laptops does not necessarily mean that you had the most advanced and innovated machine’s capability, performance and specification as far as technology can offer. However, brand new and high-end laptops are only advisable to users who are in need of an absolute performance, and enough storage and memory based on their works’ requirements.
Among these users are the web developers/programmers, software engineers, graphic and layout artists, and others who are in the field of IT and business industries. Average users commonly use refurbished or reconditioned laptops. These users belong usually in a workgroup of writers, call center agents, office clerks, and small-sized businesses. Personal or home users are also categorized as average users. A colossal majority of users of used laptops use them for several and yet simple tasks. These tasks usually include Internet browsing, accessing emails, local software and office applications such as word processing, spreadsheets and presentations, chatting, listening to music and other similar tasks that only require minimum technical requirements. These tasks do not require for laptops with advanced and innovated technologies and gadgets that usually cost expensively if purchased. Instead, these tasks only require minimal speed on CPU, RAM, Memory, and Internet Connection.
Nowadays, wireless access to Internet is propagating in places such as coffee shops, schools, clubhouses, restaurants, parks and other confined places where a user is free and convenient in using a laptop. Furthermore, we will discuss the advantages, considerations, and comparative analysis with brand new of buying refurbished laptops.
Budget is an important factor in buying a laptop whether it’s a brand new one or refurbished. As a buyer, we prefer buying goods in good prices but of good quality. We always want our goods to be worth the price when buying them. In case of refurbished laptops, working condition and performance are the topmost requirements we hunt for. Not to mention, its physical looks and defects count as well.
Refurbished or reconditioned laptops don’t usually have working batteries. These batteries are not necessarily dead or totally not functioning, it’s just that they don’t last on the usual two hours life of a laptop battery. Because of this, some refurbished laptop buyers tend to buy new battery for their unit to function well. As a piece of advice, refurbished laptop buyers should be wised enough in considering a brand name for their unit.
Among the branded and trusted laptops that offer refurbished stocks at good pricing are IBM, Lenovo, Toshiba, Dell, HP-Compaq, Neo, and Fujitsu. Software applications are also needed to be considered in buying refurbished laptops. Some refurbished laptops are limited to advanced and innovated software applications. So it’s important to determine the software applications that a user needed for his or her computing environment.
Most of the refurbished laptops only include the Operating System (OS). If your bought refurbished laptop doesn’t include an OS, you have to install it yourself instead. For those who are not knowledgeable enough in installing an OS, it is recommended to have a thorough research first on the basics involved before buying refurbished laptops.
Computer Knowledge
Welcome to the Computer Knowledge tutorial on computer viruses. We'll discuss what they are, give you some history, discuss protection from viruses, and mention some of the characteristics of a virus hoax.
Keep in mind that not everything that goes wrong with a computer is caused by a computer virus or worm. Both hardware and software failure is still a leading cause of computer problems.
If you read each page to the end you should be able to proceed on a page-by-page basis. To jump to a specific page please see the map at the bottom of each page. A listing of anti-virus software vendors is also available as part of that map.
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WHY KIDS LOVE COMPUTER NETS Using technology to escape the bounds of the classroom, children are learning to work in ways you never dreamed of when you were their age.
By Elizabeth Corcoran REPORTER ASSOCIATE Jacqueline M. Graves September 20, 1993 (FORTUNE Magazine) – THE RALPH BUNCHE public school sits squarely in Harlem, surrounded by the splintered glass and concrete trappings of inner-city life. Nearby avenues echo with police sirens, blaring music, and angry shouts. But upstairs in room 409, Hamidou Diori is exploring another world altogether -- by way of electronic networks. On the Macintosh screen before him, the 13-year-old seventh-grader maneuvers his computer mouse across a collection of icons that represent stored files and programs. With a few quick clicks, Hamidou has hooked into Internet, the sprawling electronic highway system that by a recent estimate connects more than 15 million people and thousands of universities, government offices, and businesses in 60 countries. Another click and Hamidou has called up a gopher, a kind of electronic guide. Once programmed to search for information on a given subject, it will burrow through databases and bulletin boards that are connected to Internet but reside on computers scattered around the globe. Hamidou's goal: Find a topic for a science project on recycling. He gives the gopher a few key words; in seconds the program makes a preliminary search and flashes a list of possible sources on his screen. Soon Hamidou is scanning feisty, fact-filled messages posted on the bulletin boards by graduate students, professors, and managers in many countries, debating the merits of recycling. If those exchanges don't provide the inspiration Hamidou needs, he will float a few questions of his own across the network. ''I use a whole bunch of databases,'' he nonchalantly tells a visitor. ''You ask these people for help -- and they give it to you.'' From Harlem to Honolulu, electronic networks are sparking the kind of excitement not seen in America's classrooms since the space race. That contest in the 1960s inspired a generation of students to become scientists and engineers. The advent of computer networks could have even more profound effects. In scores of programs and pilot projects, networks are changing the way teachers teach and students learn. Last spring, for example, instead of merely reading about life in Russia from outdated books, schoolchildren in Minnesota exchanged electronic mail with their peers on the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Siberia. Students across America tracked the progress of four men biking 10,000 miles in Africa, via reports filed by the riders on an international teachers' network. In the process, the kids learned the continent's geography. Still others got a taste of scientific collaboration by measuring the oxygen in local lakes and comparing results with peers around the world. By tapping into the nets, kids discover ways of working and communicating that weren't available to their parents -- and that will powerfully enhance their prospects when they join the work force of the 21st century. The networks may also play a key role in helping U.S. schools overcome their notorious weakness in teaching math, science, and geography. That's partly why network projects have grants from influential high-tech donors such as IBM, Boeing, AT&T, and Xerox. Bob Hughes, Boeing's corporate director of education relations, looks to computer networks as a key to turning out students who adapt readily to change and who solve problems by seeking out and applying new ideas. Owais Amin... |
