2007-02-11 17:45:20 · 8 answers · asked by Me Here. 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Yes. Laptops are designed to maximise battery life. To do so, they use many strategies.
Most laptops use speed scaling technologies to "underclock" the CPU to a much lower clockspeed when it's not being put under a great amount of load. Because the strategies involved in doing this arent perfect, they can make laptops seem slower at times.
Another crictical element is laptop hard drives. They are designed to run quieter and cooler and use less electricity. They are able to do this by spinning their platters at a slower RPM rate, which also slows down file transfer speeds, relative to a desktop hard drive.
Laptops are designed for portability and having an adequate battery life is critical to being able to *BE* portable. Because of this, to varying degrees depending on the laptop's design, laptops generally will be slower than desktops.
2007-02-11 17:53:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a sony laptop and desktop, both are pretty high end computers, both have 1gb of ram and my laptop usually performs much better and not to mention is no more than an inch thick closed and has a ultra-bright x-bright screen which is awesome. Now on the other hand my dads computer with 3gb of ram(could have easily gotten 4 but decided to keep the cost down), a two terabyte hard drive, with a 30 inch screen and loads more makes it a deadly combo for any application(video editing is what its primarily used for) Any computer with at least 1gb of ram should be plenty fast...
2007-02-11 19:06:09 · answer #2 · answered by MY F*C|(!nG MoRn!ng JacKeT 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely.
These days, the performance gap between desktop and notebook is much smaller, but it is still there.
Not to mention some of the power saving programs that are installed on a lot of laptops that throttle down processor speed to save on battery life.
2007-02-11 17:49:24 · answer #3 · answered by Bjorn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely Yes. Laptops use Processors which run at lower sppeds consuming less electricity giving more batter life.
Similarly Low speed hard Disks are used to save power.
so laptops would be slower than desktops with similar configurations.
2007-02-11 17:49:54 · answer #4 · answered by Sunil Saripalli 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes! laptop performs slow compared to desktop, most laptop have low memory compre to desktop, just compare it size. Does size matter's?
2007-02-11 17:56:24 · answer #5 · answered by jun 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Because of it's speed is low that a laptop. I am facing the same !
2007-02-11 18:21:15 · answer #6 · answered by Sarvesh K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-27 03:08:44 · answer #7 · answered by dunworth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if its older yes but anymore laptops have the same computing power as desktops
2007-02-11 17:49:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋