The term laptop is used to describe a computer you can take on the go and rest on your lap hence the name, whereas the label notebook is generally reserved for ultra thin laptops. They are even more compact and weigh about as much as a paper notebook. This difference in size should be your first hint that a notebook has smaller, fewer, and generally weaker components. Critical pieces of hardware, such as RAM, CPUs, and storage drives in notebooks, typically cant measure up to those you find in...

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