What is the difference between a laptop and a notebook?

Answer 1

The Notebook Computer
A standard notebook has the following features:
1. Ultralight. Less weight is better.
2. 4 - 5 hour battery life.
3. No internal floppy drive.
4. Minimal graphics subsystem.
5. No internal DVD or CD system.
6. 12" - 14" TFT screen.
7. Low profile (thin).
8. Integrated modem and network connection.
9. Smallest possible keyboard that retains functionality.
10. Low power consumption Celeron/Centrino or Sempron style processor.

Now the laptop
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The Laptop Computer
Now for the laptop computer. Again look at the name. A laptop is designed to sit on your lap and you can therefore expect it to be quite large and loaded down with features and power. The
The standard laptop computer would have some ,if not all, of the following features:
1. 14" - 17" (widescreen) TFT screen.
2. Nvidia GeForce or ATI Radeon graphics subsystem.
3. Internal DVD-ROM or DVD-RW drive
4. Large full featured keyboard.
5. 3 hour+ battery life.
6. Upgradeable.
7. Integrated modem, network, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi capabilities.
8. High quality integrate audio and speaker system.
9. Low power consumption, high performance Intel Centrino style processor.
From reading the above information you'll see that the notebook is the exact opposite of the laptop. Notebooks offer reasonable power and extreme portability. Laptops are designed to be capable of replacing an entire desktop PC if necessary whilst still offering desktop performance in a mobile platform. Hopefully this article has helped clear up the differences between both classes of portable computers. As time and technology moves on the line between laptop and notebook will continue to blue but for right now it's still clearly defined and driven by the demands of the portable computer market.

Answer 2

Well the answer that "Quite New Here" gave was very interesting, but with all due respect to her and that article, while there me be some small circles where there is a recognized difference between the two, in practice, the two terms are absolutely interchangeable. An example, to my knowledge there is no major computer manufacturer that has a seperate laptop and notebook section, they are all under the same section (usually referred to as notebooks in this setting). So the answer is, technically, well you read her answer, but in actual practice, no difference.

Answer 3

Notebooks do not have many of the same things you can do with a laptop. They are... junk in my opinion.

Answer 4

Notebooks are generally thinner than laptops, but other than that, they're obviously the same.

Answer 5

They are the samething. They just started referring Laptops as Notebooks becuase you couldn't hold them in your lap beucase the cooling fan would blow out hot air and burn thorugh your legs.

Answer 6

it's a same thing...
I prever use laptop.... notebook sometimes make a missunderstanding between "notebook" and "real notebook" (book for writing things....)

Answer 7

They are the same. At one time when portable computing was new there was a difference in size.

Answer 8

There basically the same thing, just different names.

Answer 9

Absolutely nothing... they refer exactly to the same thing, a portable computer.

Answer 10

r you just trying to be funny..........

if you dont know look it up rotfl

note books are thinner!!!!!! key word NOTE BOOK!!!!!!

laptop tend to be bigger more powerful cheaper thus being thicker