Laptops
Because laptops are invariably factory built, there
is little standardisation. For example a floppy disk drive in one will not be the
same as a floppy drive in another, RAM memory in one is unlikely to fit in
another ..etc. However a new bread of
laptop is now manufactured by ASUS which use ‘Mobile Modules’. This gives the ability to have some standard
components and therefore the basic units can be added to and upgraded by
distributors or users ASUS laptops - See below
Moreover the price of components for these
factory-built laptops are between 2 and 3 times the PC equivalents - this is
because of miniaturisation.
The main hardware problems associated with Laptops are:
- Power Supply Units
- PCMCIA cards (e.g FaxModems ,
network cards…etc
Power Supply Units
These are usually units at the rear of the laptop.
Once they go the whole unit must be replaced. Before this is done however, you
must check the power cable and transformer attached to the cable to see if it
is only a power cable problem.
Use the cable on another laptop which has the same
transformer output rating, or use a multimeter to check the output voltage from
the cable. (a typical output from the transformer is between 15-18 volts - it
should be displayed on the transformer). If you can establish that the cable
& transformer are OK , then have the power unit replaced.
PCMCIA cards
PCMCIA
cards can be 16bit or 32 bit. For
example if a PCMCIA Network card is a PC Card Bus Fast Ethernet 10/100Mbit , it
is likely to be a 32 bit card and will not register on an older laptop which
has 16bit PCMCIA slots. If you have 16bit PCMCIA slots then you would need a
16bit PC Card.
ASUS Laptop Sales
through PC Relief
PC Relief can supply ASUS laptops are very competitive prices.
WHY ASUS and not Toshiba or Compaq, Dell …etc ?
- ASUS are World Leaders in
the production of PCs, Servers, CDRom and DVD drives, Sound cards, Video
cards (you may have seen/heard of GEEFORCE video cards), and important
leaders manufacturers of Motherboards.
Motherboards are the most complex of computer components and many large PC manufacturers use ASUS boards. It stands to reason therefore that if ASUS built a laptop around one of their own boards and other devices - it has got to be good.
- ASUS laptops ARE EASILY
UPGRADABLE unlike DELL, COMPAQ and other factory-built laptops.
ASUS
Laptop Sales through PC Relief
