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Laptops

Laptops and notebooks have some common dangers unlike their desktop cousins which don't get moved around as much if ever. The hard drives fail more often and your data lives on the hard drive.

Be very careful when placing a laptop on a  hard surface, even a small jolt can prematurly end a Hard Drives useful life, The read/write heads are normally "parked', that is moved off the actual disk surface, when sensors detect a notebook is being dropped but unfortunately the safeguards to protect the drive from jolts when the machine is off are found mostly on business units and not on most consumer models.

One feature found on many business laptops is the Trusted Platform module(TPM), it has not reached the consummer side yet. TPM is a Input/Output chip that by means of software and hardware performs very secure data encryption. This protects your passwords, digital certificates and serial keys, safe from the prying eyes of intruders if the unit is lost or stolen.

Input/Output options of importance:

Component Video out Preferred method of connecting to HDTV or any other RGB input capable device

DVI As DVI-D, connects to displays using pure digital inputs such as those found on plasma displays or as DVI-I to devices with analog inputs found on some projectors for large format presentation.

Firewire Extremely fast connection for the transfer of data from a hard drive or video recorder. Its comes in two speeds 400mps or 800mps which are found on the newer apple PowerBooks. Compare this to the average hard drive which transfers data at 30-40mps