Advantages and Disadvantages

Advantages & Disadvantages  of a Laptop:

Advantages:
- A laptop is more portable, making them perfect for students and mobile professionals who require a computer while on the move if they need to give presentations, they also can look on their emails, there projects, and get Internet where ever they go.
-Laptops have lower power, you can easily add files, and plug your laptop into a big monitor, like a t.v or different displays.
- A laptop is good to have with you every where you go, even in the class room. Having a laptop is an ability to use it to contact your friends thru email and also you can take notes for a project you'll be working on.

Disadvantages:
-Laptops are to repair, or get an upgrade.
- Laptop hardware and installing operating systems different than those bundled with the laptop may result in hardware incompatibilities.
-Laptop configurations are very limited to those provided by laptop manufacturers.
- Sometimes a bad thing having a laptop is sometimes if you save a document on it for school and the laptop crashes or it stops working completly if it's old.
- Another disadvantages is well is where ever you go like to a restraunt, cafe, coffee shop, or , maybe a bagel shop and you take your laptop to do some work, well you have to be careful from the people behind you because they can hack into your system and take all your personal stuff that you have on it.

Advantages & Disadvantages of a typewriter:

Advantages:
-The stuff you have typed is permanent and cannot be deleted just because you pressed the wrong button like when typing in a computer.
-Produces legible written documents, no power supply needed and instant printout.
-As it uses reusable ribbon it is very economical to use, it does not cause eyestrain even if you use it for several hours.

Disadvantages:
-If you make a typing mistake you would have to use tippex to remove the mistake instead of just pressing backspace as in a computer.
- Can't provide email or use the Internet to send a document, you have to deliver it by hand or mailed.
-No graphics can be added, the paper has to be inserted manually, and also it is only possible to created one copy at a time.

Similarities and Differences

Typewriter:

-A typewriter is a mechanism for typing letters and documents. When using a typewriter, the letters and symbols are printed directly onto the paper as you go along.
- A typewriter creates the letters by pressing ink through a ribbon.
- its a machine and its mechanical


Laptop:
- a laptop is a technoglogy that does alot of things, like you can type out an essay while looking onto google for information.
- a laptop has a screen to be more visual on what your, or what your working on like a project.
- for a laptop its electronic, and well you can pretty much use it for anything, like for example you can watch movies, play games, use the internet, email your friends, and also you can video chat.
- A laptop is also capable of making calculations and some decisions WITHOUT the direct imput or effort of the operator.

Similarities between a Typewriter and a Laptop:
- they both have a keyboard
-there both used for word processing
- both used to write letters, essays, well there both used for typing anything.