June 16th, 2008 
feed Laptops are either too large which causes users to complain about lugging all that extra weight around or they’re too small, which means no one can type on them. Finding a happy medium seems to elude many IT organizations.
Harvard Business School offers both standard and three quarter size laptops, but CIO Laster says his users are willing to trade weight for a larger screen and keyboard. “Most people just hate those three-quarter-size machines,” he says.
June 6th, 2008 feed Bob Vesely , IT manager at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle has a simple reason why he hates laptops: They’re easy to lose. Luckily for Vesely, the number of laptops he oversees is small, around 40 or so. But Vesely nevertheless tries to guard them zealously, because in his organization, a lost laptop affects more than one user.
Once zoo staffers retire a laptop, it’s sent to wildlife researchers in Papua New Guinea and other places. The zoo benefits from that research, so it’s a win-win situation, assuming the machines don’t get lost. Vesely most often sees laptops getting lost during business trips, he says.
June 5th, 2008 feed 
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Stay on the worst of laptop, they’re tough to fix, and they die young. Laptops last, on average, three to four years as compared to the healthier four to five years of the average desktop, according to IDC. Even worse, anecdotal evidence indicates many truly mobile laptops never make it past the 2 to 3 year mark.
Not only do laptops live shorter and more difficult lives than desktops, they definitely go down fighting which is to say they give IT departments a much harder time when it comes to upgrades and repairs.
Today’s laptops are built just like today’s cars, says Matthew Archibald, senior director of global information security and risk management at Applied Materials Inc. in Santa Clara, Calif. Buy a new car,
June 2nd, 2008 feed 
The first place laptops get damaged is on airplanes, according to our highly informal survey of support managers. That guy in front stretches out, jams the tray table down and smashes the nice new laptop in the process.
“A lot of these laptops are assembled in China, and let’s face it, they are flimsy,” says Long Le, IT director at Atlas Air Inc., a large international air freight company in Purchase, N.Y.
Le oversees 300 laptops traveling to the far-flung reaches of Asia, South America and Europe. Not all of those laptops travel business class, so he sees a lot of broken hinges from tray-table mishaps, as well as cracked screens and cases and parts that just decide to fall off.
June 1st, 2008 feed Tags: abode, aegis, apple iphone, character id, computer analyst, e mail, florida department of law, florida department of law enforcement, hacker, instant messages, networks, pc computer, personal data, security, social networks, virtual private network, vpn, wi fi, wi fi hotspots, wifi, Wireless, wireless internet networks, xo
Wireless internet networks or popular known as Wi-Fi hotspots become more popular in this days. Generally wifi located at the coffee shops, fast food restaurants, book stores, airports, sports bars, school campuses, malls, supermarkets just about everywhere. Several cities and neighborhoods host or plan to install networks for residents.
Because of everyone available to access the networks, though, security has to be low, it means that often there is no password or registration needed to use the service, and E-mails and instant messages are not encrypted. Those settings make it very easy for a hacker working from anywhere around the world to use computer codes to peek into your computer and steal sensitive information.
May 31st, 2008 feed Tags: ac adapter, achilles heel, asus eee pc, batteries, battery, battery life, better solution, dell, dell laptops, department of transportation, information services, laptop, laptops, macbook air, medical transcription services, mobile users, olpc, power cords, t power, xoIn this article we didn’t say that IT had to like Laptop. Here we present, in no particular order, the top 10 things IT professionals absolutely hate about laptops. And yes, we did have to edit down a very long list.
Battery life still bombs.
Battery life has long been the Achilles heel of laptops, and even though battery life in newer models can now top four hours, it’s not enough for mobile users and the IT pros who service them. Not nearly.
“I love my laptop, couldn’t live without it, but I really hate it, too,” says Dr. Joshua Lee, medical director of information services at the University of California at San Diego Medical Center in La Jolla, Calif. “Battery, battery, battery … it is such a pain.”
Lee, who is both a practicing physician and an IT director, means that literally. He oversees a team of 50-plus laptop-carrying doctors who sometimes are forced to stop a patient exam and go search for an AC adapter cord so they can continue making notes on the patient’s records. “There’s the hunting for the plug, then the unplugging and wrapping up of the cord … it just feels weird to be doing all that in front of a patient,” Lee says.
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Damaged. Lost. Stolen. Too big, too small. Insecure and unreliable. And just plain annoying. If you’re in IT, there’s just not much to like about laptops.
To be sure, portable computers have changed the way business operates, so much so that we literally cannot imagine a work life without them. That said, IT professionals, whether they’re dealing with accident-prone users or keeping the network secure, say laptops are nothing short of a support nightmare.
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