Desktop and application virtualization constitutes an increasingly popular way for enterprises to reduce capital expenditures (CapEx) and operating expenses (OpEx), improve efficiency, increase control, and expand connectivity. With virtual desktops, users now access their desktop images hosted on a data center server as virtual machines, which can be accessed from laptops, thin clients, smartp...

This study provides an in-depth description of adult learners’ perceptions and experiences using laptop computers in higher education institutions. The study also examines the influence on human beings’ cognitive activity by using laptops. The results are organized into seven themes and four classifications: usage, benefits, limitations, and cognitive impacts.

Aktuelle Entwicklungen und Motivation Multikernprozessoren integrieren mehrere CPUs auf einem Chip und machen Parallelrechner für jedermann erschwinglich. Inzwischen sind Laptops, Desktop-PCs oder Server mit 2-, 4oder 8-KernProzessoren ausgestattet. Da die Taktfrequenzen aufgrund der Hitzeentwicklung nicht weiter erhöht werden können, müssen Performanzsteigerungen in Zukunft durch Parallelität ...

The explosion of people networking in cyberspace, disseminating terabytes of information is being promoted through the use of broadband, bluetooth technology, and wireless mobile computing facilities such as laptops, PDA’s and now smart-phones. New communities within such venues as virtual chat rooms, Forums, e-classrooms videoconferences, discussion groups, newsgroups etc. are being created da...

A distributed finite element method (FEM) solver using Sun’s JavaSpaces technology was implemented and tested on a heterogeneous mix of computers including laptops, desktops and SMPs running MS Windows, Linux and Unix operating systems. Test problems in 2 and 3 dimensions were solved using a distributed iterative conjugate gradient method.

In this paper we present ChirpCast, a system for broadcasting network access keys to laptops ultrasonically. This work explores several modulation techniques for sending and receiving data using sound waves through commodity speakers and built-in laptop microphones. Requiring only that laptop users run a small application, the system successfully provides robust room-specific broadcasting at da...

This paper presents a document-oriented model for information dissemination in dynamic ad hoc networks, such as those composed of highly mobile and volatile communicating devices (e.g. laptops and PDAs). This model relies on an asynchronous, peer-to-peer propagation scheme where documents can be cached on intermediate devices, and be later sent again –either spontaneously or on demand– in the n...

BACKGROUND Mobile learning (ML) is an emerging educational method with success dependent on many factors including the ML device, physical infrastructure and user characteristics. At Gippsland Medical School (GMS), students are given a laptop at the commencement of their four-year degree. We evaluated the educational impact of the ML program from students' perspectives. METHODS Questionnaires...

Over the years, electronic waste accumulation has been on a steep rise, parallel with technological evolution of electrical and equipment. Companies have adopted circular economy approach to overcome emerging issue in last few decades, where goods can return manufacturers or remanufacturers. They be used after certain modifications remanufacturing processes. The laptop refers disassembly, inspe...