I will first list some of the things I assume you know. I assume you know that there is this thing called a computer (also referred to as a PC, a personal computer, a machine, a system, and many more names that sometimes distinguish fairly subtle variations between almost identical things) which is usually seen as a once mysterious but now commonplace box with something that looks like a tv sitting either on it or beside it (in such cases, in a moment of pure, brilliance, a genius once decided to call this box sitting on top of your desk - a desktop!). Sometimes it is that box that stubs your foot when you unsuspectingly sit down when told to use the computer on a desk with a tv on it (called a monitor, according to one theory, due to the resemblance between the look with which most geeks stare at it and the piercing gaze of a monitor lizard) and no box (the same or maybe a different intellectual decided to call this vertical standing computer a tower, though rumor has it that, if a different geek had his way, it would have been called a floortop).
I also assume that you are able to distinguish when I mention them, the two things on many such tables with computers on them, between a keyboard and a mouse.Well, now you get the drift of it - so what then would you expect that a laptop might be? No, this is a family rated site, so don't let your imagination wander far from home. If you imagined it to be something that was attached to, suspended from, or even mostly positioned atop a lap, you would be mistaken, my friend - a laptop (also known sometimes as a mobile, though that term is now being usurped by even smaller computers that fit in your pocket) - is a computer that simply happens to combine a keyboard, a mouse, a monitor and the computer itself into a single unit that could fit on your lap. Well, once in the ancient ages of computers, people probably did carry this on their laps, but eventually more laps and peripheral organs got scorched by the heat from the thing than not, to the point where most people have found several creative alternatives to the lap to plop it on. One interesting alternative gaining popularity is the tummy (which by the way is a gift of evolution, geeks and long term web surfers are usually endowed with satisfactorily large tummies to enable the right viewing angle to browse on their back - some midsections have reportedly started growing coffee holders besides the tummy as well to eliminate the need to get up for hours on end). Well, I assume you know all that, so I am probably just ranting away. In my next post, I shall talk about something infinitely more significant - something you can actually do with this computer.
I also assume that you are able to distinguish when I mention them, the two things on many such tables with computers on them, between a keyboard and a mouse.Well, now you get the drift of it - so what then would you expect that a laptop might be? No, this is a family rated site, so don't let your imagination wander far from home. If you imagined it to be something that was attached to, suspended from, or even mostly positioned atop a lap, you would be mistaken, my friend - a laptop (also known sometimes as a mobile, though that term is now being usurped by even smaller computers that fit in your pocket) - is a computer that simply happens to combine a keyboard, a mouse, a monitor and the computer itself into a single unit that could fit on your lap. Well, once in the ancient ages of computers, people probably did carry this on their laps, but eventually more laps and peripheral organs got scorched by the heat from the thing than not, to the point where most people have found several creative alternatives to the lap to plop it on. One interesting alternative gaining popularity is the tummy (which by the way is a gift of evolution, geeks and long term web surfers are usually endowed with satisfactorily large tummies to enable the right viewing angle to browse on their back - some midsections have reportedly started growing coffee holders besides the tummy as well to eliminate the need to get up for hours on end). Well, I assume you know all that, so I am probably just ranting away. In my next post, I shall talk about something infinitely more significant - something you can actually do with this computer.
