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4 unusual facts about Laptop


Claims adjuster

Laptop computers, pad, and other technologies make claims adjusting easier and consume less time.

Front Parlour Ballads

Thompson had a small studio built in his garage at home and recorded the tracks onto his laptop computer, adding overdubs as he deemed necessary.

Pointing device

It's a stationary pointing device, commonly used on laptop computers.

Yctc

Although YCTC offers a variety of Thermal pipe ( Heat pipe ) product lines, YCTC's major focus is heat pipes used in Notebooks (laptops).


Avenir Telecom

They consist in the distribution and sale of a wide variety of communication products, especially mobile phones, activation of service, accessories, answering and fax machines, phone cases, phone chargers, phone soxs, plastic shelves, 3D phone stickers for mobiles and laptops, earkits, hands-free kits, portable headsets, and USB Bluetooth dongles under the OXO name.

Best Selling Secrets

IBM T2x ThinkPad laptop computers were also featured as mobile workstations of choice for the characters.

Big Bazaar

Formed a joint venture with Hidesign to launch Holii, a new brand of handbags, laptop bags and other accessories.

Brophy College Preparatory

Under the mandatory program, all incoming Freshman must buy a Lenovo Tablet PC, which is a laptop on which the user can both type and write.

Ceibal

Ceibal project, the Uruguayan counterpart of the One Laptop Per Child project

Centrino

Laptops with Intel vPro technology have hardware features that allow a system administrator to remotely access wired and wireless laptops for maintenance and servicing if the operating system is unresponsive or crashed and, when a laptop is connected to AC power (not on battery power), allow a sys-admin to remotely access the laptop when the system is asleep or laptop power is off.

Classy Christmas

The gifts that Kelly decides to give to her staff members on Corporate's behalf are laptop sleeves, featuring the popular fictional character Hello Kitty, which is produced by the Japanese company Sanrio.

Croydon, Pennsylvania

Several notable mid-size businesses are headquartered in the business district of Croydon, including PAC Industries and Denaq Laptop Batteries.

Dash Navigation

In January, Dash Express won "Best of CES" awards from both CNET and LAPTOP Magazine.

Dead Rising 2

He escapes with the phone and laptop, and Chuck follows him to a casino rooftop, where he plans to escape by skyhook after revealing that the Vegas and Fortune City outbreaks were necessary to keep a consistent supply of queens to make Zombrex, enraging Chuck as his wife was killed in the Vegas outbreak which led to Katey getting infected in the first place.

Death of Adrian Donohoe

Detectives seized mobile phones and laptop computers in a raid at a property in Hackballscross, Dundalk and seized firearms, explosives and illegal drugs during another raid at a premises in Kilsaran, Castlebellingham.

Dell Inspiron

The Dell Inspiron 9300 was a laptop that had either a 1.6, 1.73, 1.86, 2.0, 2.13 or 2.26 GHz Intel Pentium M processor and a 17" wide-screen (available in WXGA+ with a 1440 by 900 resolution and WUXGA with a 1920 by 1200 resolution). At the time, it also featured DDR2 memory, a new feature for laptops. Compared with the other Inspiron laptops, it is considered to be the "Entertainment Powerhouse".

Desktop computer

A desktop computer is a personal computer in a form intended for regular use at a single location desk/table due to its size and power requirements, as opposed to a laptop whose rechargeable battery and compact dimensions allow it to be regularly carried and used in different locations.

Doodle4Google

The winner's doodle appeared on the Google homepage on May 27, 2010, and also received a $15,000 college scholarship, a laptop computer, Wacom digital design tablet, and a $25,000 technology grant for their school.

Electroacoustic

Electro-Acoustic Ensemble, a laptop-based ensemble at Loyola University New Orleans

Elman Joel Sandoval

While the Congress was discussing and approving the 2013 Budget, Sandoval was watching in his assigned laptop a F.C. Barcelona match for the 2012–13 Copa del Rey.

Emika

In Berlin Emika started working as a sound designer for Native Instruments, all the while honing her own ("uniquely haunting", according to AllMusic) musical style with her laptop, picking up ideas from the dance scene at the Berghain and Panoramabar clubs.

Heart sounds

Using electronic stethoscopes, it is possible to record heart sounds via direct output to an external recording device, such as a laptop or MP3 recorder.

History of laptops

Before laptop/notebook computers were technically feasible, similar ideas had been proposed, most notably Alan Kay's Dynabook concept, developed at Xerox PARC in the early 1970s.

HP Pavilion dv 1658

The HP Pavilion dv1658 is a laptop by HP released in 2006 with optional webcam and microphone and speakers by Altec Lansing or Harman Kardon.

IdeaPad Y Series

This laptop is one of the few 15.6 inch laptops currently in the market with a fourth generation Haswell Intel Core i7 processors.

IMINT Image Intelligence AB

The software can run on a standard rugged laptop such as Panasonic Toughbook series.

J Lesser

Doerck was a member of the defunct laptop group Sagan, alongside Blevin Blectum, Wobbly, and video artist Ryan Junell.

Jack Bristow

A screenshot in a fourth season episode showed a laptop referring to his birth in London, Ontario.

Jayeebhava

Anjali delivers the jacket to Ram but to meet him again she breaks Ram's Friend's (Venu Madhav) Laptop.

Landmark College

All students are required to purchase a Landmark-supported laptop, text-reader (Kurzweill 3000), speech-to-text (Dragon NaturallySpeaking), and other software is mandatory for all incoming students, regardless of psycho-educational evaluations and recommendations.

Lewisburg Area High School

The administration stated that the polices stem from stipulations attached to their Classrooms for the Future grant, which allowed it to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on MacBook laptop computers.

LiMux

The project was successfully completed in late 2013, which involved migrating 15,000 personal computers and laptops of public employees to free and open source software using the Linux distribution "LiMux" (an Ubuntu derivative) as the operating system and LibreOffice as the primary productivity software.

Lyle Ritz

In 2005, Ritz purchased an Apple laptop and a copy of GarageBand, software used to make home recordings.

Miracast

It allows users to, for example, echo display from a phone or tablet onto a TV, share a laptop screen with the conference room projector in real-time, and watch live programs from a home cable box on a tablet.

Mobile virtual private network

Some manufacturers create ruggedized computers, such as the Panasonic Toughbook or the Itronix GoBook, in laptop or Tablet PC configurations.

PC-based IBM-compatible mainframes

FLEX-ES must run on the machine with which it was sold; in the past, this included Compaq Proliant and HP servers, but today this is nearly always an approved IBM xSeries server or a ThinkPad laptop.

Peoria Notre Dame High School

Every freshman and sophomore student was required to purchase and use a Macintosh laptop; payments could be spread out over the three or four years until graduation.

PSM3

The blog was also noteworthy during PS3's Japanese launch; one of the freelance writers, Joel Snape, was in the queue at the Asobits store in Akihabara and blogged live using his laptop.

Pwn2Own

The laptop running Windows Vista SP1 was exploited on the third day of the contest with an exploit for Adobe Flash co-written by Shane Macaulay, Alexander Sotirov, and Derek Callaway.

Relevance Language

Amongst other features the most prominent one is that it looks if a particular computer (whether its a Desktop, Laptop, Mobile running iOS or Android, Mac, Linux, etc.

Renegade, LLC

In 1997, Renegade named and launched Panasonic’s ruggedized laptop, the Toughbook, which became the market leader in less than three years.

School of Advertising Art

As it is a graphic design college, all students are required to use their own Macintosh laptop computers using the leading provided computer graphics software, such as Adobe Systems's Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash and InDesign; .

Sony Vaio FJ

In the 2006 movie The Holiday Iris Simpkins (Kate Winslet) Had a Sony Vaio FJ series laptop in Pearl White Color.

Speedy Ortiz

The band originated in 2011 as Sadie Dupuis's solo project while she was teaching songwriting at a summer camp, during which time she began recording her own material using her laptop.

Stow, Massachusetts

Lee H. Pappas, publisher of several well-known hi-tech publications, including A.N.A.L.O.G., PC Laptop, VideoGames & Computer Entertainment and TurboPlay

Thorn EMI Liberator

The Thorn EMI Liberator was a laptop word processor, produced in the United Kingdom by Thorn EMI, primarily intended for use by UK Government civil servants.

Walk the Moon

The band's second single, "Tightrope," was used in a commercial for the HP Envy 4 Ultrabook laptop.

Wireless USB

A laptop with an Intel host adapter using an Alereon PHY was used to transfer high definition video from a Philips wireless semiconductor solution with a Staccato Communications PHY, all using Microsoft Windows XP drivers developed for Wireless USB.

Wolfenstein: Ray Traced

That image is sent to a thin-client (small laptop) over Gigabit Ethernet.

Zoomed video port

In computing, a zoomed video port (often simply ZV port) is a unidirectional video bus allowing a device in a PC card slot to transfer video data directly into a VGA frame buffer, so as to allow laptops to display real-time video.


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