A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC Fifth Edition Chapter 20 Notebooks, Tablet PCs, and PDAs

2 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Portable Computing Devices Notebooks Tablet PCs PDAs More mobility Less functionalities cheaper

3 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Notebook Computers Same technology as PCs, with modifications for space, portability, and power conservation  Thin LCD panels  Compact hard drives  Small memory modules  CPUs that require less power

4 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Notebooks versus PCs NotebooksPCs Usually purchased as a whole unit; unlikely to upgrade hardware and OS Design is typically proprietary Highly modular Components can be interchanged, upgraded, and enhanced Cost less than notebooks

5 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Windows Notebook Features Power management Support for PC Cards Windows 2000/XP Offline Files and Folders Folder redirection under Windows 2000/XP Hardware profiles under Windows 2000/XP

6 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Power Management Automatically power down a PC card when it is not in use

7 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Support for PC Cards Many Windows drivers for PC Card devices

8 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Offline Files and Folders When the notebook is offline: stores shared files and folders in a cache on the notebook When the notebook is online: synchronizes the files in the cache with those on the network

9 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Folder Redirection Allow the user to point to an alternate location on a network for a folder The location of a folder (e.g., my documents) is transparent to the user

10 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Hardware Profiles Allows a user to specify which devices are to be loaded on startup for a set of circumstances  One profile for when the notebook is on the road  One profile for when the notebook is in the office

11 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Hands-on Project: Crate a Hardware Profile pp. 930 & Figure 20-2

12 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Hands-on Project: Power Management pp. 933 & Figure 20-3 pp. 934 & Figure 20-4 pp. 935 & Figure 20-5

13 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Connecting Peripheral Devices to Notebooks ( continued )

14 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Connecting Peripheral Devices to Notebooks ( continued )

15 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition PC Card Slots Connect to the 16-bit PCMCIA I/O bus on notebook motherboard Might contain a data cable to an external drive, or might be self-contained

16 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition PC Card Slots

17 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition PC Cards

18 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition PC Card Slot Standards CardBus (latest spec)  Improves I/O speed  Increases bus width to 32 bits  Supports lower-voltage PC Cards while maintaining backward compatibility Three other types (Type I, Type II, Type III), which vary in thickness

19 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Using a PC Card to Interface with a Network

20 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Types of Memory Used by Notebooks

21 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Hard Drive Comparison

22 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Tablet PCs Allows the use of a digital pen to write handwritten text on the LCD panel Smaller, more graphical, more user friendly, and more portable than a notebook

23 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition A Tablet PC

24 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Features of a Tablet PC Functioning Windows XP computer with the power of a full-sized notebook Input can be by handwriting, voice, hardware keyboard, or on-screen keyboard Built-in support for wireless, wired, and dial-up networking AC power adapter and rechargeable battery Windows XP Tablet PC Edition PC Card, USB ports, and VGA port for peripheral devices

25 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Writing on a Tablet PC

26 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition PDAs Provide more portability than a notebook or tablet PC Include a stylus Powered using an AC adapter or battery Use either a grayscale or color active matrix or dual- scan passive matrix display Can interface with a desktop or notebook computer to transfer files and applications Synchronize with PCs through a USB, serial, or wireless port

27 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition A PDA

28 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Optional PDA Accessories

29 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition PDA Manufacturers and Operating Systems Windows Mobile by Microsoft  More versatile  Better for downloading and running applications similar to Windows

30 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition PDA Manufacturers and Operating Systems ( continued ) Palm OS by PalmSource  Less complex  Easier to use  Better choice when PDA is used for simple tasks Principal difference between the two OSs is in the applications they support