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| − | This part deals with the most visable parts of a laptop; the screen, keyboard, power adapter, and access panels. The most important take away from this is the power adapter, specifically the voltage, amperage, and the rating type. The voltage must match what is printed on the bottom of the laptop, but the amperage printed in the same place is more of a minimum. This means if you can't find an adapter with a matching amperage, but you can find one with a higher amperage (and matching voltage), than you're in luck. The third, and possibly most anoying part, is the barrel type. Barrel refers to the round connector that slides into the back or side of the laptop. If a barrel matches or not can very by manufactuar and model, | + | This part deals with the most visable parts of a laptop; the screen, keyboard, power adapter, and access panels. The most important take away from this is the power adapter, specifically the voltage, amperage, and the rating type. The voltage must match what is printed on the bottom of the laptop, but the amperage printed in the same place is more of a minimum. This means if you can't find an adapter with a matching amperage, but you can find one with a higher amperage (and matching voltage), than you're in luck. The third, and possibly most anoying part, is the barrel type. Barrel refers to the round connector that slides into the back or side of the laptop. If a barrel matches or not can very by manufactuar and model, and you may or may not find a matching adapter from the same manufactuar. It's preferable to do so, but if not, you just need to match the voltage, have the minimum amperage, and matching barrel type. |
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Revision as of 14:02, 4 August 2012
Please list ideas for Laptop Eval including steps, things to ID etc.
Curriculum
Introduction
- Examples of different hardware combos
- Start with a spread of assorted laptops
- Paradigm of desktops vs laptops, i.e. the lack of modularity, predictability.
- Different brands, differences between them.
- Overview
External (Stage 1)
This part deals with the most visable parts of a laptop; the screen, keyboard, power adapter, and access panels. The most important take away from this is the power adapter, specifically the voltage, amperage, and the rating type. The voltage must match what is printed on the bottom of the laptop, but the amperage printed in the same place is more of a minimum. This means if you can't find an adapter with a matching amperage, but you can find one with a higher amperage (and matching voltage), than you're in luck. The third, and possibly most anoying part, is the barrel type. Barrel refers to the round connector that slides into the back or side of the laptop. If a barrel matches or not can very by manufactuar and model, and you may or may not find a matching adapter from the same manufactuar. It's preferable to do so, but if not, you just need to match the voltage, have the minimum amperage, and matching barrel type.
- I/O: Keyboard, trackpad, monitor
- Electron flow: battery, power adapter
- Exercise: Matching AC adapters to their appropriate laptop. Give volunteers a spread of example laptops and and AC adapters to match up, taking into account voltage, amperage, and barrel type.
- Plates (AKA case, access panels)
Inside (Stage 1 & 2)
- RAM
- Exercise: Sorting w/ chart: Give volunteers a pile of unsorted RAM, varying in speed and type, to be sorted using the RAM Speed & Type Chart.
- Hard Drive
- Exercise: Insert into appropriate slot on motherboard: Give volunteers some HDDs with different interfaces and laptops (or just bare motherboards) to be matched. Include different kinds of adapters to be found.
- PCI/PCI-e
Componets (Stage 3 ?)
- RAM sorting
- PCI Cards: Wifi vs Modem
- PCMCIA (PC Card)