Practical computing is undergoing a major shift towards parallelism due to exhaustion of performance gains of other approaches to computer design like increasing clock speed [4]. In a few years, parallel multicore processors with hundreds of concurrent processing threads will be prevalent in common desktop and laptop computers, while web servers having manycore processors will feature even thou...

Computation is now packaged in a variety of devices. Smaller and lighter laptop/notebooks, as powerful as conventional personal computers, free us from the confines of the single desk. Specialized devices such as handheld personal organizers are portable enough to be with us all the time. Wireless technology allows devices to be fully interconnected with the electronic world. Cameras and VCRs a...

This study explores whether university students find that laptop computers and networks increase flexibility and effectiveness of studying. Special attention has been paid to non-traditional students who have extra commitments, such as taking care of children or term-time employment. Questionnaire data was collected from students who had the opportunity to acquire a laptop partly sponsored by t...

Whip type antennas are probably the most commonly used antennas in portable RF systems, such as cordless and cellular phones, RF enabled laptop computers, , and handheld computers. Whip antennas are almost always mounted on the chassis which contains the radio and other electronics. Normally in mobile phone two set of antenna used for receiving different application such as GSM and GPS. In this...

A conventional computer keyboard consists of as many as 101 keys. The keyboard has several sections, such as text entry section, navigation section, numeric keypad etc. each having several keys on the keyboard. The keys are arranged quite spaciously so that the human fingers can operate comfortably. The number of keys and the arrangement of keys make a keyboard quite big. Although a bigger keyb...

A desktop keyboard has several sections like character key section, navigation key section, numeric key section, and function key section etc. each consisting of several number of keys. However, a laptop computer does not have so much of space to accommodate all these keys into the keyboard. There are several considerations while designing a laptop keyboard. Necessary features-The laptop keyboa...

Standard laptop computers are now capable of sizeable quantities of sound synthesis and sound processing, but low-latency, high quality, multichannel audio I/O has not been possible without a cumbersome external card cage. CNMAT has developed a solution using the ubiquitous 100BaseT Ethernet that supports up to 10 channels of 24-bit audio, 64 channels of sample-synchronous control-rate gesture ...