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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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• Gaming laptops, which tend to have flashy designs, typically come

loaded with the latest top-end processors, graphics cards, RAM, SSDs,

and large, high-quality displays. They also tend to come with

thoughtful touches like high-quality keyboards that are extensively

customizable.

• A Chromebook is a portable computer running Google’s Linux-based

Chrome OS. Chromebooks offer an experience focused on Web

applications by making use of virtually unlimited data storage in the

cloud and Software as a Service (SaaS) applications available over the

Web. Because they offload so much work, Chromebooks have a

reputation for being cheap and light, but premium Chromebooks are

increasingly common.

It’s even more important to know how to categorize devices that play with

the traditional clamshell format, because they often blur the line between

portable and mobile devices.

• 2-in-1s are touchscreen computers somewhere along the spectrum from

laptop-and-tablet to tablet-and-laptop. We’ll take a closer look at pure

mobile tablets (such as the Apple iPad or various Android tablets) in

Chapter 24, “Understanding Mobile Devices.”

• Convertibles are laptops that can “convert” into something you can use

like a tablet. Some have removable screens—where you separate the

screen from the rest of the laptop—while others have special hinges

that enable you to fold the entire device up and use it like a tablet. The

latter are called rotating screens. If the screen is removable, you’ll lose

access to any ports or components in the base but effectively have a

tablet computing device.

• A hybrid laptop/tablet is most often a device with a tablet form factor

that is designed to integrate with a detachable keyboard (which may or

may not come bundled with the device). Some of these keyboards may

double as soft/pliable covers for the tablet (see Figure 23-4), while

others are built more like a small traditional keyboard. You may also

hear someone use the term slate to describe a hybrid or tablet designed

for use with a special pen (an input device called a stylus).

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