Mobile computing - An inevitable development trend?

In 1990, Ford car company conducted a survey for American teenagers to learn the shopping direction of this class. The majority answered that car. Ten years later, a similar study was conducted but there was a completely different answer: it was a laptop.

There is a very special cross-topic for these two studies and that hasn't changed in a decade. Previous research results show that teenagers want to own a car because cars help them go and go and become more mobile, can even give them a sense of pride because participate in advanced social classes. Ten years later, laptops also give them the freedom to become more mobile, can go and go and do what they like.

And if we think more deeply about this, the topic is true for mature adults - both business people and ordinary consumers - we become mobile or yearn to be moved. more dynamic. Moving around the world for business, meeting with partners or a mobile work environment has almost become a very normal thing in life. We can work without leaving home, or working while still sipping a cup of coffee in a coffee shop. Holidays are merely moving from one country to another.

Just like the judgment of the majority of young people in Ford's survey program, we find that laptops have evolved into a tool that is becoming increasingly difficult to separate from everyday life.

In the past, laptops had to exchange their overall features and usefulness for convenience and mobility. For example, to improve performance, we have to accept to change the size, battery life and temperature of the device. A powerful laptop is usually large and heavy, while a thinner laptop will not be as strong. Users will need to add auxiliary devices to connect wirelessly. But once that laptop is connected wirelessly, performance will be reduced because it will significantly increase processing pressure for the CPU. Battery life will also be shortened because wireless connections require more power.

What motivates the fast application of a laptop and turns the laptop into a current 'normal'?

Basically, there are 4 reasons to increase the number of laptop users significantly, both in business activities and entertainment activities: performance, battery life, shape set design (size and weight) and connectivity.

The recent increase in laptop use could be rooted in huge improvements to these reasons when Intel introduced Intel® Centrino® mobile technology in 2003. Business and consumer use now has an all-in-one laptop without sacrificing any other factor. As wireless broadband becomes more and more popular, laptops are also increasingly used.

Designed to deliver minimal power consumption and maximum processing power, Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo processors are twice as efficient as those used by public computers. The previous generation Intel® Centrino® mobile technology but at the same time consumes 28% less power.

Not only that, Intel recently announced a new brand called Intel® Centrino® Pro processor technology. This new technology will expand the groundbreaking and common features of Intel® vPro ™ microprocessor technology to a high performance notebook product line. This is part of a plan to introduce the next generation Centrino processor technology, code-named 'Santa Rosa', to bring new heights to laptops for both business users and people. consumption.

Thanks to the ability to work faster but use less power, new laptops using Intel® Centrino® Duo mobile technology will achieve energy efficiency and efficiency of approximately 2, 5 times. To make it easier to imagine this number, compare it to the real things that are close to us in everyday life.

The power that a microwave oven uses in a minute or electricity that a steam iron consumes in a minute can help a laptop using the Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo processor work from 60 minutes or more. The fact that a laptop uses less electricity also means less heat is generated, from which the laptop will not need to frequently power off to 'rest'.

Longer battery life means that business users who use laptops while on the move can keep their performance unchanged without paying attention to the power to charge the battery for a while. longer time. Imagine the benefits that a businessman who often has to travel can earn, certainly this entrepreneur does not want to have to constantly find the power to charge the battery for his laptop. If you feel sad while sitting on the plane, they can comfortably enjoy the latest movies through their laptops with just one full battery charge, which is probably not possible before. .

Improving battery life and processing power means that professionals can be assured of powerful applications for customers or work environments with the belief that the system will be capable of to handle highly complex information quickly and easily. A system can perform many previous layer applications (VoIP voice, webcast, slide show, web surfing) and the following layer applications (anti-virus, encryption) at the same time without affecting performance operation or sensitivity of the system.

With newly improved capabilities, families can comfortably enjoy their holidays, recording memorable moments of the family with high-definition (HD) digital video cameras and computers. Laptops not only help store those moments, but also allow families to create a video blog with real-time efficiency. Download HD videos that you shoot daily into your laptop, you can quickly edit and upload them to your website. The laptop is even twice as good as your family game system because it helps your kids to enjoy the latest, best games with high resolution when the family is on the road. traveling.

It is clear that the Mobile Era has appeared widely around us and is ready. So what are you waiting for ?

Hoang Chi